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.
Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Holy shit there were so many ads in that article that I just stopped reading. It sucks LG is going down this route. They make really nice displays but now I dont ever want to buy an LG tv if its spying on me to serve me these ‘better’ ads. Fuck advertising. Its turned into a complete monster
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You can probably just cover the camera with tape or smth.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Don’t connect a computer monitor to the internet?..
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah I could really use one. Do you have any recommendations of ad blockers that you like?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
uBlock Origin on Firefox-based browsers.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 4 weeks 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.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I tried the YouTube app exactly once. Since then my TV doesn’t have an internet connection any more.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 4 weeks 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.