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I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Boozilla@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I run my tv through my pihole. It doesn't take out everything, but it's a good start.

[–] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is why i pirate. Haven’t seen a tv ad in months (not counting product placement in shows/movies obviously).

[–] Astongt615@lemmy.one 3 points 2 months ago

It does help a bit, but most stuff I watch on my TV with ads (Hulu, YouTube, and YouTube TV) don't work unless the ads are unblocked as well :⁠'⁠(

[–] tee900@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any issues with content not coming through like it should when using that? My household uses youtube apps on roku, and i have a feeling i would just mess that up if i employ a pihole since youtube serves ads on the same servers as content.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My YouTube is ad free, although that isn't the pihole as far as i know. The most noticable effect is lack of ads in Samsung apps like the broadcast tv guide. I will say that Samsung is a bunch of assholes since they try to process more than 1000 requests per minute and i see that in the pihole log.