[aljgz]

I belong to one demography of ex Samsung customers:

I've blacklisted them for hurting UX to show ads. Last device: my very high-end OLED TV has the worst menu navigation, just to take me back to the home screen where they hoped to show ads to me. Once I realized they are analysing my content, even when coming from an external device to send home for ADs, I just disconnected it from the internet.

I'll not buy anything again unless they change this and stay away from it long enough to repair the damage to trust.

Not buying an Apple device either, but for different reasons.

[MBCook]

TBF: Apple has slowly been on the “push our services” ads thing. At least not other companies.

But they’re doing it. And it’s annoying.

[JSR_FDED]

Put an AppleTV in front of it and use it like a monitor. I’ve been blissfully unaware of the TV vendors’ bad software and invasions of privacy for years

[aljgz]

The only apple product I ever bought has been an ipad with the huge disappointment that every app gets paused when not focused. I don't want to pay a company that deliberately limits my ability to use the product. My TV is being used as a second 4k 144hz monitor for my Fedora 43 + KDE on AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU, watch movies on it, play games, etc, and don't have to put up with limitations of Apple ecosystem.