[naner]

Ads, baby. Everything you do online is for sale.

[welly]

The Internet needs to be better than being almost entirely propped up by the advertising industry.

Surely even they know their day will come.

It will, won't it?

[giancarlostoro]

Somehow it will. Not sure when. I tire of Amazon giving me ads to things I already bought. Like someone told me they bought something you usually only buy one of like... Random example: a new toilet or something... No I dont need another one the replacement one was fine enough thank you!

[SlowRobotAhead]

It takes a little longer every time someone implies ad blockers are “stealing” or that it’s all ok because “it’s the model”. I completely refuse both of these ideas.

[Pxtl]

Except this is the case where users have made a large cash purchase, and so have the realistic expectation that they are the paying customer and not a pair of eyeballs to be sold to the highest bidder.

[hombre_fatal]

If "their day comes" and we still don't have a cultural shift that involves paying anyone for content except the largest tech companies (e.g. Netflix), then we'll be even worse off.

Though, that Patreon has any traction at all suggests that a shift is happening or at least becoming feasible.

[smolder]

It depends on whether they are able to cement their "right to exist" as a business model through regulatory capture and other sorts of bullying as is the case with for-profit medical insurers and car dealerships and likely many other things I'm not thinking of.

[daveFNbuck]

Displaying content on your television isn't something you do online. It's something you're doing at home. Samsung is spying and putting it online.

[inetknght]

You don't own your Samsung TV. You lease it. It's therefore Samsung's screenshots, not your private ones.

[ojosilva]

After I've moved to Firefox and installed lots of ad-blocking plugins, enacted privacy settings and GDPR options everywhere available and uninstalled mobile native apps (ie. FB, Twitter), I felt like I had defused the whole data-collection-to-advertising lifecycle. By not seeing ads, no matter what Samsung collects, I would be safe or at least disruptively useless for them... until Samsung showed me a small, targeted ad through their TV UI. Resistance is futile.