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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is a certain unfortunate irony in the realization that one of the easiest ways to avoid this kind of thing is to buy a commercial digital signage panel intended for advertising instead of a consumer TV.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Or just don’t connect it to wifi and use hdmi media players that don’t have ads in the OS.