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[–] [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.