The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads - eviltoast

I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.

Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven’t already.

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  • bananymous@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Is American football not merely a vehicle through which advertising can be pumped? You’d think the entire sport had been designed from the ground up for such a purpose.

    Four seconds of action, six minutes of commercials….3.6 seconds of action, 47 replays, five minutes of commercials.

    P.S. Smart TVs can eat shit and die.

    • Godnroc@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I went to a game for the first time a few years ago. I recall the moment where everyone was sitting around and not doing anything because they were waiting for the commercials to finish. It felt like watching actors drop their characters the moment they step out of the spotlight.