Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads - eviltoast

Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through once.

  • treesquid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Or just don’t connect the TV to your network. It has inputs. Use an input device you have control over. The end.

    • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      a Chromecast is one of those inputs. And it has been a nice product. The reason people are mad is that they Google changed the product after they bought it significantly.

      and yes. Today the only reasonable good TV is a computer monitor connected to a device I have control over.

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      10 months ago

      Or get a decent TV?

      My LG oled has options to disable ads, and I never see ads when using the apps or the menu that launches them.

      I still have a PC connected to the TV, but many of the TV’s apps do a good job.