Advertisers hate this one weird trick
I recently connected my tv to the wifi for the first time to connect it to my self-hosted media server, having previously used it from my games console. I really wasn't expecting the shitshow that followed. After a large software update I could not reject, almost the entire home screen was taken over by giant ads and a bunch of unsolicited streaming apps. What the absolute fuck but after some googling I guess this is normal now? People just accept this? I was and still am so enraged at the audacity that I spent the next couple hours learning how to create a firewall rule on my router to block internet access to my tv whilst maintaining my local streaming connection. Now I am back to a zen home screen, but the audacity of this event has further radicalized me to continue the ad purge across my other devices.