Samsung’s Too Smart TV Inserts Ads in User Content

- Dear, what this TV allows itself?

Reddit user complained that his Samsung Smart TV, when playing movies from a usb drive, automatically inserts ads in them every 20-30 minutes. Other users have confirmed that this is indeed happening.

The author of the first post used the Plex application to view his films. One would assume that the responsibility for the sudden advertising lies with the authors of this application, however they commented on this fact and completely deny their involvement in it. Later it turned out that this happens with other applications running on the TV of a South Korean company, for example Foxtel TV . Samsung has so far refused to comment on what is happening.

One of the readers of Reddit said that you can disable advertising through the settings of the Yahoo service (Smart Hub> Terms & Policy> Yahoo Privacy Policy, and uncheck "I agree"). On the cooperation of Yahoo and Samsung to display ads on the company's televisions was announced in January. However, Samsung promised that this feature will not only be customizable, but also disabled by default.
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Samsung Smart TV is not the first time criticized. TV, among other things, supports voice control. And most recently, when studying a user agreement (someone reads them), a warning was found: private and sensitive information that you say out loud next to the TV can be collected and transmitted to third-party services. And although the company disowned the accusations , explaining that this possibility can be turned off, the scandal has already taken place.