<story><title>The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool</title><url>https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-tv-ad-blocking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Some may argue that there&amp;#x27;s no need to be dramatic and that there&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong in seeing an occasional ad every now and then.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, no, I am very dramatic about this. I will go to any lengths not to see advertising. I will entirely forgo any platform that shows me even one ad, especially when I pay them. Amazon Prime video is already pushing it with their preroll previews. The second it&amp;#x27;s something else I&amp;#x27;m canceling and going back to P2P. Fuck &amp;#x27;em.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1ncorrect</author><text>Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.&lt;p&gt;It indiscriminately pollutes the environment, and inflicts harm on non participants by incentivising unbridled data collection.</text></comment>
<story><title>The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool</title><url>https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-tv-ad-blocking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Some may argue that there&amp;#x27;s no need to be dramatic and that there&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong in seeing an occasional ad every now and then.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, no, I am very dramatic about this. I will go to any lengths not to see advertising. I will entirely forgo any platform that shows me even one ad, especially when I pay them. Amazon Prime video is already pushing it with their preroll previews. The second it&amp;#x27;s something else I&amp;#x27;m canceling and going back to P2P. Fuck &amp;#x27;em.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unclebucknasty</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the principle.&lt;p&gt;This probably sounds over the top, but at some point it feels like they&amp;#x27;re saying they own you. You&amp;#x27;re paying them for one service, and they&amp;#x27;ll unilaterally decide it&amp;#x27;s not enough and they are going to make more money on you. But they don&amp;#x27;t do it via a price increase that gives you a fair opportunity to decide on the value exchange. They just start shoving this stuff on you.&lt;p&gt;And worst of all, it&amp;#x27;s your time they&amp;#x27;re taking to do it. The one thing there&amp;#x27;s never enough of, and that you&amp;#x27;ll never get back.</text></comment>