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An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS (arstechnica.com)
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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I have an old 60 inch 1080p TV from the early days of smart tvs. It has a built in app for plex and youtube, a remote that works as a pointer, it's insanely slow but it has zero ads and I'm never ever getting a newer model.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 9 hours ago

Up until that TV dies.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Yup. My 58" 4k LG TV has a bunch of apps (we only need Netflix and Jellyfin), and the only ads I've seen are in their apps, which don't need to be opened. It's a little slow and apparently can't even handle Jellyfin over HTTPS, but it works well.

My SO wants a bigger TV, and I'm dreading looking through the current market to find a decent replacement. I'd really like OLED and for it to be a few inches bigger, but it seems everything has ads and spyware out of the box. Screw that...