Pointed out that smart TV ads are 'too terrible', is there a trick to escape from ads?



Internet services that can be used free of charge are also operated with some form of income, and in most cases the source of income is 'advertising'. Chris Welch of the IT news site The Verge has been discussing 'the pros and cons of advertising' when he noticed that advertisements were even displayed on the app store page of LG smart TVs.

LG is cramming ads everywhere it can on its TVs --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-commercials-content-store

On March 10, 2021, Mr. Welch was updating the app of his LG smart TV 'CX 4K OLED TV'. But what caught the eye of Welch, who opened the app store, was an Ace Hardware commercial that autoplayed in the corner of the screen.




The commercial lasted about 15 seconds and was small enough that the pop-up itself didn't get in the way, but Welch commented, 'I felt terrible by today's ad-flooding standards.' He raised the question about 'advertising invasion' by saying, 'What would it be like to see a commercial that plays automatically just by updating the app in the iOS or Android app store?'

Welch said of the smart TV in question, 'The 55-inch big screen display is priced at $ 1,400 (152,000 yen), which is unprecedented for next-generation games, but it is a pile of advertisements that supports this low price. So, I'm tired of considering the price when I think that the advertisement will be displayed even in the app store. ' He mentioned that LG started licensing its own OS for smart TVs ' webOS ' in February 2021, and commented, 'I may be trying to see how much advertisements can be displayed.'

LG isn't the only one displaying such excessive ads. According to Welch, Samsung, Roku , Vizio and others are also displaying advertisements on the home screen of smart TVs like LG.

Smart TVs collect information such as user viewing history and location information, and there have been reports of cases where information was sent to Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, etc.

It turns out that the smart TV was secretly sending user information to Netflix and Google-GIGAZINE


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Welch recommends Pi-hole , which acts as a DNS cache server and can block ads such as smart TVs, as a way to escape from such ads, and tricks such as blocking a specific domain with a router to prevent ads from being displayed. I will.

According to the English-speaking social bulletin board Reddit, in the case of Samsung smart TVs, from the functions such as 'URL filtering' or 'blocking' of the router, 'ads.samsung.com' 'samsungads.com' 'www.samsungotn.net If you block 'www.samsungrm.net' and 'www.samsung.net/ads', there will be no ads. For LG, you can block 'ngfts.lge.com', 'us.ad.lgsmartad.com', 'lgad.cjpowercast.com', 'edgesuite.net' and 'us.info.lgsmartad.com' in the same way. It's OK.

YSK if you own a Samsung smart TV that has ads, you can block them by adding ads.samsung.com to your block list on your internet router: YouShouldKnow
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/gn7fw5/ysk_if_you_own_a_samsung_smart_tv_that_has_ads/

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