xxGBHxx
Prominent Member
Hi all,
Bit of a rant but I'm starting to think I'm a bit odd in caring about this (I did look for other threads but my search skills were probably too weak to find them).
I bought a 40" TV for the dining room on Black Friday. It's a low end model, smart TV "4k" thing. Perfectly happy with the picture and the vast majority of the TV. The problem I have is with the forced adverts. It's driving me f***** mental every time I turn the TV on. Blaring adverts for films and TV I don't want to watch at parental ratings that are too adult for my son coupled with occasional random adverts inserted in the selection bar. It's a bloody disgrace.
So I have a television which bloody spams me with adverts I don't consent to on a TV I've already paid for. Why would *ANYONE* put up with this and think it's acceptable? I just find it bizarre that the majority just don't seem to care.
I don't care that they want to bundle stuff with their TV's. I don't even care that it's enabled by default but removing the ability to delete it, forcing advertising and resetting it even when you remove it is, and the Americans would say, a dick move.
All I want is the ability to go to a blank page with the sources listed and NOTHING playing unless I tell it to. I *REALLY* hate the way things are going where we're constantly losing the control we used to have in the name of convenience. It's BS. They could offer the exact same convenience without all the other stuff but as always they're just taking advantage and we're all just lapping it up.
One thing I know for damn certain is that I will *NEVER* buy another Samsung TV unless this is changed and I am seriously considering sending this POS back tomorrow in protest.
There rant over.
G
Bit of a rant but I'm starting to think I'm a bit odd in caring about this (I did look for other threads but my search skills were probably too weak to find them).
I bought a 40" TV for the dining room on Black Friday. It's a low end model, smart TV "4k" thing. Perfectly happy with the picture and the vast majority of the TV. The problem I have is with the forced adverts. It's driving me f***** mental every time I turn the TV on. Blaring adverts for films and TV I don't want to watch at parental ratings that are too adult for my son coupled with occasional random adverts inserted in the selection bar. It's a bloody disgrace.
- You can't turn the app off.
- You can't delete the app
- You can't move the app
- You can delete the channels inside the app but it resets them and FORCES autoplay whenever you turn the television back on after a few days off.
- Samsung support CAN'T do anything about it and just repeat over and over "you can't change core parts of the software".
So I have a television which bloody spams me with adverts I don't consent to on a TV I've already paid for. Why would *ANYONE* put up with this and think it's acceptable? I just find it bizarre that the majority just don't seem to care.
I don't care that they want to bundle stuff with their TV's. I don't even care that it's enabled by default but removing the ability to delete it, forcing advertising and resetting it even when you remove it is, and the Americans would say, a dick move.
All I want is the ability to go to a blank page with the sources listed and NOTHING playing unless I tell it to. I *REALLY* hate the way things are going where we're constantly losing the control we used to have in the name of convenience. It's BS. They could offer the exact same convenience without all the other stuff but as always they're just taking advantage and we're all just lapping it up.
One thing I know for damn certain is that I will *NEVER* buy another Samsung TV unless this is changed and I am seriously considering sending this POS back tomorrow in protest.
There rant over.
G