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Samsung Smart TVs Now Showing Popup Ads Over Your Content

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glynor:
I would lose my fricking mind if this happened to me:

http://blog.davidchartier.com/post/73517939961/bought-our-samsung-smart-tv-two-months-ago-now




--- Quote ---Bought our Samsung Smart TV two months ago, now it’s showing popup ads for apps and services. To clarify: what you see is my Apple TV in the ‘background’ (running a photo screensaver) and a Samsung ad for Yahoo Broadcast Interactivity popping up on top of my Apple TV.

A POPUP AD ON MY TV.

Under no circumstances, scenarios, case studies, fictional situations, or boardroom fantasies is this acceptable. None. No, if you think you have an argument or a circumstance under which these ads are acceptable, you are wrong and there’s a great chance you are not a very good person.
--- End quote ---

Read the article for more horror.

* The "prompt me" box on that screen?  Yeah, you can't uncheck it.  At least he couldn't with the included remote.
* To disable this "feature" apparently you have to go to the Samsung Hub, then open the App store, search for the SyncPlus app (because that's clearly named).  The text on the ad makes it seem like it is included, but it wasn't on his TV.
* Then, once you get this app installed, buried in the menus somewhere is an option which supposedly disables this "feature".  Though who knows, since he had the TV for two months and this is the first time it happened.

Seriously.

I'm not a Samsung fan by any means, but I will NOT buy a Samsung TV until I hear confirmed that they've stopped this terrible practice.

JimH:
I saw this yesterday.  It really confused me for a while. 

mwillems:
Ack;  I've got a Samsung Smart TV, and up until this moment I'd been pretty happy with it.  That's godawful. I haven't seen an ad like that yet, but I expect it's only a matter of time   >:(

I deliberately never setup some of the network functionality because I didn't actually need a "Smart TV" (I just needed a large monitor basically, and got a good deal on it).  Maybe that will keep me safe for a while.  Because of this nonsense, my next TV will probably not be a Samsung (this may actually be the push I need to give up on screens and get a projector).

rec head:
My new Panasonic VT60 has adds sometimes. I think it might just be when I access the home screen. I have only seen them twice.

Scolex:
Seeing this just make me wish the manufacturers would offer high end 3D TVs without the *Smart* feature that much more.
I have never used any of the so called smart features of my TV I have a smarter box it is called a HTPC and it will play anything I want.

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