Advertising on TV and radio stations here in the Netherlands is heavily regulated so people aren't constantly exposed to ads, while these manifacturers can do whatever they like. It is time to start regulating TV manifacturers on data collection and showing (personalized) ads. Shit's getting Orwellian.

After my LG C3 started showing ads I disabled the smart TV part and now use external players only for all our TV's. I don't trust TV screen manifacturers the slightest bit.

Let's see how well it will do when fed into the maw of the Pi hole

All these screen saver ads and pause menu ads are going to save lots of people lots of power.

Is it even possible to buy a tv nowadays that doesn’t have this crap?

Well yeah, I mean do you think smart tv's are smart out of the kindness of the shareholder's hearts?

This happened yesterday and I felt accosted. Was like why is my room yellow right now? Never will I let jellyfin idle again.

I hate it. benefits no user anywhere

So glad my TV is rooted. Even better is that I just found somebody ported Apple TV Aerial screen savers over. So, while some LG TVs get worse, others keep getting better!

https://github.com/aabytt/custom-screensaver-aerial