Reply to post: Re: Removing ads from Samsung TVs

Here's why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware

Tessier-Ashpool

Re: Removing ads from Samsung TVs

Dunno. But I share your dislike of adverts showing up on the TV. It’s a bloody liberty, that’s what it is. When you buy an expensive 4K TV you don’t expect to be advertised at by the manufacturer. Part of my Samsung setup was an innocuous request to enter my email address. Right, like I’m actually going to do that! Since I have my own custom domain I put in samsung@mydomain.com. Turns out Samsung have a rat odour detector and refused that. But the not-so-smart TV was happy enough to accept sumsang@mydomain.com. Every time the TV powers up from cold it cheerfully informs me that sumsang@mydomain.com is logged in. They’re probably thinking that a small percentage of their purchasers will sign up to their lacklustre streaming service.

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