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Yeah it was incredibly annoying when my new expensive TV played ads when I was trying to browse apps... really? WTF.

I've started to rely more on my PS4's apps to view TV. While it does have its own ads, none of them seem as intrusive as the one from the native TV interface.

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My Vizio replaced its built-in, vanilla Chromecast capability with a conventional “smart tv” interface that I didn’t want. And to be able to use that, they force you to accept a TOS that includes monitoring.

Worse, I couldn’t tell it to stop connecting to my WiFi after all this happened. I had to ban the TV from my LAN and change the WiFi credentials.

I spent a lot of money on that TV, only to have it go rogue on me.

The VERY first thing the LG television I bought did was show me an advertisement. I had to blocked its MAC address from the router.

The PS4 by default puts ads alongside your purchased games, but at least you can turn that off (for now)

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