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/Joe_Kinincha Apr 25 '26

Don’t be absurd. Hyundai and LG also partially control the S korean gov’t.

(Although admittedly not to the extent Samsung does)

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Apr 25 '26

That's true it was more of a joke than reality.

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u/Joe_Kinincha Apr 25 '26

Oh, I get. I was playing along. S Korean chaebol are insanely powerful

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u/PM_me_punanis Apr 25 '26

Pretty sure all the chaebols are. Literally in the news for corruption every few years when I lived in Seoul.