I’m never buying another TV again. I got a 48” OLED computer monitor that is now my TV. And I don’t have to use that HDMI garbage.
Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing
Submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’re all going to be buying computer monitors to watch TV soon.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They’re becoming “smart” as well, unfortunately.
TheTempest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And projectors, many are still “dumb”
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have never connected a TV to the Internet. I do have a smart TV but I just use it for my computer.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Whats the benefit of using a smart tv for your computer?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ohh it’s not wrongdoing and when we refuse to buy anything from them, they’re getting what they gave.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I reminds me I should start writing my clickbait “(Millennials/GenZ/GenA or whatever) are killing TV manufactureres” article
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m genX, but now that you mention it, My kids refuse to watch anything not on a tablet or phone, so there’s that…
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Holy shit, glad I put my hisense behind a pihole blocking all domain lookups and never updated it
leftascenter@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
“Ads help pay for the smart part of the TV” /s
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“the ads help us make more money above and beyond all the apps who’ve paid us to pre-load their shit on our product”
leftascenter@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
It’s not shit, is customer oriented consumer experience. Or the other way around, not sur anymore.
tabular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I didn’t do anything wrong”, says man who doesn’t understand the concept of consent or ownership.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Thats why you dont get smart tvs.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Increasingly difficult to find a dumb one. If Walmart or Best Buy carries them, they don’t make a show of it.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I have a “smart” TV, but it has never been connected to the internet for reasons such as this. Also I don’t want it spying on me, which is a thing society has to deal with now for some reason, and we just let it happen.
We should be burning the corporate headquarters for these places down when they try shit like this.
Greg@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Plot twist: this article is an ad for 3rd party streaming boxes
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
That’s one reason why I never connected mine to the internet.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not trying to be a Sony Bravia shill but I have two Sony Bravia XBR (X950G and X900H) TVs. Neither of these has ever attempted to show me an advertisement. They aren’t the newest versions nor the most expensive. I don’t include YT ads since those are YT generated.
bluemellophone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Get 'em while that last:
“In a major industry shift announced in early 2026, Sony is entering a strategic partnership where TCL will take a 51% stake in its home entertainment division, including Bravia TVs, with a new joint venture expected to be fully operational by April 2027”
It’s the end of an era for the Sony Bravia.
DavidGA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is misleading.
TCL will only be manufacturing the panel. Sony will continue to perform integration.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From what I read earlier beyond the single line you quoted, this seems to be for the panels and not the processors/boards.
unphazed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sony pissed me off a few years back. Day one: wanna share data with us? No. Year later: data? No. Year 3. Your tv will no longer accept internet connections unless you agree to share your data. Ok, fuck. Year 4. 30% apps no longer work due to system requirements. You - bastards. I just used a firestick in it until it died on year 6. Which also sucks since it was $3000 in 2017.
osanna@lemmy.vg 2 weeks ago
You might like to learn about Smart Tube. It’s a front end for YT on Android TV, but it cuts the ads and sponsors. You have to download the APK though and load it that way (I refuse to say side load. side loading implies perhaps you’re not supposed to do it. I paid $1K for this tv. I’m going to do what i fuckin want to, not what google tells me I’m allowed to do), because you sure as shit know that google wouldn’t allow that app on the play store. I’ve been using it for a year or two, and i have yet to see an ad.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I find myself wondering just how complicated TVS could actually be before it’s no longer possible to hijack the display signal that’s fed to the display
Unlike with cars, TVS seem simple enough that a sufficiently motivated novice could modify a cheap TV to circumvent these bullshit features. If they ever started requiring internet connections to start or use these, i think enough people would be bothered by it that there would probably be a secondary market of modified hardware
As with most enshitifications, the question will ultimately be one of complacency of the average consumer.
stoly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The basic thing is to get some product that YOU control and never allow the TV to be connected to the internet.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why NONE of my monitors ever go online. Ever. I did it once for testing back in 2012, and even then the experience was shit.
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Im still using an LG tv from 2007, and you could be too if you were my friend :^) I have jurassic park on bluray and i make pretty good popcorn
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bought a new TV and this is precisely the reason why it will never be connected to the Internet. I miss out on the built-in AirPlay which is annoying but I’ll live.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Why do I still have a 32" TV? Because that’s the largest size that’s still readily available as an ordinary, cheap, flat dumb panel with a tuner. (Well, that and I don’t especially need a larger one.)
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pro tip, buy a “Commercial Didplay” not a SmartTV and be happy.
rebornAnew@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
this is actually fucking terrifying
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still remember adjusting the wrabbit ears on our black and white tv to get one of 4 tv stations.
I am perfectly happy with walking away from video entertainment once my work-arounds fail.
The world will continue spinning when the media manipulators go broke because nobody watches their tripe any more.
I hear these things called books are pretty entertaining.
rebornAnew@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Of course we can get rid of video entertainement, it’s more so a question of principle and shows the impeding failure of our own economic system.
The product becomes abstract, and we’re going to be served more ads on other abstract products which will just continue the cycle.
It’s depressing.
Saunameister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fucking Hell? Just allowed it to update an hourago and already had a bad feeling and now I am reading this?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Allowed? Half the time I can’t use the fucker unless it updates.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Time to tear the thing apart and patch the firmware.
Shirasho@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Just one of many reasons I haven’t bought a TV or watched TV in over 15 years. If there is a series I want to watch I will either get the blurays or put on my fancy hat and pull out the rum.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I just stopped using a tv, period…
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“To use this vacuum cleaner you have to watch some ads.”
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We are already there, but with cars.
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
More like Nonsense TVs
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
My Hisense TV screen also broke in half by itself and they refused to honor the warranty.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
So far, I haven’t seen any of this with my Hisense TV. I have a Pihole but I believe smart TV’s, at least this brand, has a hard-coded dns so it can dial home without going through my default dns.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A hard coded DNS means nothing when it’s not connected to the internet
fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or, the PiHole can spoof whatever hardcoded IP. Sooo… Things change with DNSSec, but chances are they are not bothering with that in embedded devices.
Anyway, learned something new today; note to self: fron now on, always make sure that a TV works off-line before buying.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
So glad my TV is a dumb-as-shit model from the early 00s I bought secondhand for about $30
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
whats funny is people could not give away even lcds a few years ago. charities would not take them. my family knew I would though if they worked still.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I took the money I was going to spend on a TV and bought a 50 inch on facebook market place. Then, I got a last-gen gaming PC. Is it tedious? yes, but I can play video games and watch whatever I want without getting spied on so its a fucking win. *changing the inputs and channels on your own device?" fuck you. I hope this tv lasts the next two decades.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t have this issue with my higher end hi sense, but the article states it’s for the lower end models. So this proves that companies are lowering the costs of TV’s and offsetting it by selling your data and forcing you to watch ads they get paid for.
Mine is connected to the internet and no issues. If they ever do this to my TV, internet is off and i’m buying a shield pro.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why wait? Streaming services are only getting worse, and we can only really fight back one way. Yo ho!
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh i don’t support any streaming service, never have. But my plex server app on my smart tv is my go to. I’ve had an eye patch since Napster.