Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve owned one of their 850UK 4K LCDs and currently their C4 OLED. I can say unequivocally that their software is ABYSMAL. They make great panels. No doubt. But they really have no business deploying them. The worst I’ve ever used.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I tried the YouTube app exactly once. Since then my TV doesn’t have an internet connection any more.

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    • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LOL. I give it wifi to update and then disable it. At least in the new version it remembers your password (which is another ridiculous thing that it didn’t for the longest time). But it stays disconnected.

      I would actually lay a premium for literally a panel and nothing more. I’m shocked no one has jailbroken TVs to rip out their telemetry or made hardware bypasses. I would love to install a hardware mod chip that gives me access to the raw firmware features.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can’t hardly even buy computer monitors without them anymore either. Every one of the higher end Samsung or LG monitors is starting to include “smart” bullshit.

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  • EstonianGuy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can probably just cover the camera with tape or smth.

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    • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it’s not talking about tracking emotions from looking at the viewer, it’s tracking the emotions in the script of the thing they’re watching, so it knows what they like.

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      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t connect a computer monitor to the internet?..

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sounds like you need an ad blocker. I didn’t see any ads on the article except text links that were relevant to the story, which arguably aren’t ads.

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  • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I could really use one. Do you have any recommendations of ad blockers that you like?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      uBlock Origin on Firefox-based browsers.

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• moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s just the addition of “AI”. We’ve been doing the same thing for a long time. I used to work for an advertising data company over a decade ago, and they filtered all the ads for one of the big channels’ streaming services in exactly the same way just with regular algorithms rather than AI. It’s what would make ads for men’s razors appear in the middle of a soap opera at 11PM because it knew the user was a man getting home from the pub.

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