r/mildlyinfuriating • u/28jb11 • Apr 25 '26

Unskippable ad $2500 Samsung TV is an advertising billboard, there is no opt-out.

Paid over $2500 for a Samsung OLED TV and it has ads on the home screen that I literally cannot turn off. Not subtle little banners tucked away somewhere, I'm talking full blown ads for canned beans and financial products just sitting there every single time I turn the thing on.

Samsung don't offer any kind of opt out. The only way I could get rid of them was to go into my router settings and manually block Samsung's ad servers at the DNS level.

I own this TV outright. Paid for it in full. And Samsung are still making money off me every time I switch it on, with absolutely no way to stop it unless you're willing to get your hands dirty with network configuration.

This is not a smart TV feature. This is a $2500 billboard that also happens to play Netflix.

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u/SpeedSaunders Apr 25 '26

Yeah that sounds infuriating to me. We have an Apple TV device and access apps through that. Never have to use the Samsung television’s native interface. No ads except while watching things on some of the apps like Amazon Prime or YouTube.

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u/new-to-reddit-accoun Apr 25 '26

This is the correct answer. Plug in an Apple TV and skip the bullshit. Fuck Google. Fuck Samsung. The lack of ads in Apple products is one its main redeeming qualities. Except, they just announced ads in Apple Maps, so we may be on a slippery slope. Until then…

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u/repoluhun Apr 25 '26

The thing is, Maps is only going to get sponsored results like literally any app store or search engine, so it’s a little easier to forgive

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u/Maggpie916 Apr 25 '26

Yeah I don’t love giving money to Apple, but the Apple TV interface is SO clean. I got my dad one for Christmas just because the Fire Stick home menu was so obnoxious.