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My Samsung Smart TV started doing this recently. A small banner ad scrolls across the top of it telling me about some new app that I should download (presumably on the TV's app store?).

It seems to me that once a product (TVs, smart phones, tablets, etc) becomes a commodity, the business model is to immediately stop focusing on creating well-built products that sell themselves, and start focusing on your new product -- the user.

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In all of my dislike of smart TVs, I honesty hadn't even considered that they could just crap ads directly into your line-of-sight regardless of what else you're currently doing.

Samsung's TV popups drove me crazy. I ended up just completely disconnecting it from the internet. I would like to use a couple of the built in apps but it just isn't worth it.

Same thing here. I was seeing a pop-up for a service that was going to be discontinued. Thanks Samsung, I really needed to know that.

I was also seeing "smart ads" when it detected some out-of-band signal for ads I was seeing in Hulu. It would pop up some UI on top of the display that would let you "learn more". Thanks again Samsung for enriching my experience.

I connected the Smart TV only once to get the first update, otherwise even the hub menu was locked-down (which is required to access the USB port). Now, it is just a dumb TV monitor. I have my tablet around me anyways.

maybe you can use Kodi

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