This has to be something that’s only legal in the US because I’ve never had ads on any TV that I’ve owned. Never even thought about it, I just get a random big TV and it doesn’t have ads.
Admittedly I haven’t actually bought a TV in about 10 years so it is possible that the ones I’m getting from family members and friends are just very well researched, but I doubt it knowing them. They will have just got whatever is biggest.
not mine ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I have a series 5 Samsung 32" smart tv and except preloaded apps and stuff which can be removed there were absolutely no ads.
i even connected it to the internet and signed in with my Samsung account, still no ads
(maybe it’s a regional thing, mine is set to Ukraine)
But Samsung TVs don’t have ads in the UK. They don’t. Perhaps if you buy a TV in the UK and then take it to another country it has ads and vice versa but I’m sure it’s illegal here.
it is from 2021 so if UK changed the law to not allow ads on tvs in that timeframe it could explain it. otherwise idk why samsung UK would be answering questions on removing ads
It’s not that ads are not allowed on TVs. Obviously ads are allowed on TV. It’s just that under UK law something has to be very obviously advertisement, part of that is you’re not allowed to stick it amongst other things that aren’t advertisements.
So in television programming you’ll have to have a black screen and then a few seconds of silence before you’re allowed to show the first ad. You can’t just slam cut into it from a TV show, that’s not allowed. Equally if there’s a bunch of UI stuff the ads are not allowed to be amongst them because some of them aren’t ads and some of them are. It’s been that way for literally decades.
What I suspect might have happened is that Samsung tried their luck and then got shut down by the advertising board. Quite possibly they don’t have a way to update their firmware. My newest Samsung TV I have access to was purchased in 2019 so there may be a time period after 2019 but before 2024 where they were doing this, but it can’t have lasted very long.
There is an incoming law about not adding unremovable bloatware as well, so if they’re going to go hard on that as well I can hardly see them putting up with advertising on TV interfaces.
This has to be something that’s only legal in the US because I’ve never had ads on any TV that I’ve owned. Never even thought about it, I just get a random big TV and it doesn’t have ads.
Admittedly I haven’t actually bought a TV in about 10 years so it is possible that the ones I’m getting from family members and friends are just very well researched, but I doubt it knowing them. They will have just got whatever is biggest.
Smasnug tvs definitely have built in ads
Not if you don’t let them connect to the Internet
In that case there are no digital ads then are there
not mine ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I have a series 5 Samsung 32" smart tv and except preloaded apps and stuff which can be removed there were absolutely no ads.
i even connected it to the internet and signed in with my Samsung account, still no ads
(maybe it’s a regional thing, mine is set to Ukraine)
Series 7 occasionally shows them beside the ‘app store’
um, the tweet is customer support UK…
But Samsung TVs don’t have ads in the UK. They don’t. Perhaps if you buy a TV in the UK and then take it to another country it has ads and vice versa but I’m sure it’s illegal here.
it is from 2021 so if UK changed the law to not allow ads on tvs in that timeframe it could explain it. otherwise idk why samsung UK would be answering questions on removing ads
It’s not that ads are not allowed on TVs. Obviously ads are allowed on TV. It’s just that under UK law something has to be very obviously advertisement, part of that is you’re not allowed to stick it amongst other things that aren’t advertisements.
So in television programming you’ll have to have a black screen and then a few seconds of silence before you’re allowed to show the first ad. You can’t just slam cut into it from a TV show, that’s not allowed. Equally if there’s a bunch of UI stuff the ads are not allowed to be amongst them because some of them aren’t ads and some of them are. It’s been that way for literally decades.
What I suspect might have happened is that Samsung tried their luck and then got shut down by the advertising board. Quite possibly they don’t have a way to update their firmware. My newest Samsung TV I have access to was purchased in 2019 so there may be a time period after 2019 but before 2024 where they were doing this, but it can’t have lasted very long.
There is an incoming law about not adding unremovable bloatware as well, so if they’re going to go hard on that as well I can hardly see them putting up with advertising on TV interfaces.