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LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You're still rewarding bad behaviour. They still put all the crap on and made the sale anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They make more money from those continued sales through their app store and commercials. I've heard (on reddit news articles posted to r/technology, so not exactly the most reliable source) more than the profit for the initial sale of the tv because they actually subsidize the initial price and may sell it at a loss to get those ads in your livingroom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

To get them to stop they need to lose both the original sale and the additional advertising revenue. Right now their thinking is:

  • People are buying our TVs
  • Putting advertising on them isn't causing our sales to drop
  • Therefore it's costing us next to nothing to do.
  • It often gets us extra revenue if they connect to the internet.
  • If they don't connect, we still more than covered our costs.

There is no downside for them. Only upside. The equation needs to change for them to stop doing it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Them missing out on a dozen sales because of that isn't going to change their ways either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

No, which is why people saying "Buy it and don't connect it to the internet" isn't helping. More people need to not buy it and tell other people not to buy it.