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YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos(www.androidauthority.com)

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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You don’t need a dumb TV, just switch the input. If your TV shows ads when connected to other inputs, yeet that TV out of your house today.

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cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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Disconnect it from your network. Hard to serve ads if it can’t contact the servers it is pulling them from.

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shalafi@lemmy.world
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Got a new TV a month ago. Fucked up and connected it to wireless, no idea what I was thinking. The only way to kill the connection (from the TV side) was a factory reset.

Windows is like that now. Once you enter an internet connection, you’re screwed. No way out but a full reinstall.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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Yup, working on setting up VLANs so I can keep the stuff I like (DLNA from the NAS) without the stuff I don’t (ads).

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