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Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

"Spot test" goes back at least one year and affects multiple markets.

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]]>https://isurg.org/topic/c2b98cb9-7366-4f05-aec2-a451321f1136/hisense-tvs-force-owners-to-watch-intrusive-ads-when-switching-inputs-visiting-the-home-screen-or-even-changing-channels-practice-infuriates-consumers-brand-denies-wrongdoingRSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 05:07:00 GMTWed, 11 Mar 2026 12:08:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing on Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:48:17 GMT]]>I loved in the story of that episode that the TV execs learned that blipverts could kill their audience, and briefly switched back to adverts, but when sales fell they went back to blipverts knowing the danger because it was more profitable. The writers of that show nailed a corporate dystopian future.

Our own hope was our protagonist Edison Carter "live and direct from Network 23"...who was also part of the giant corporate machine.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22624025https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22624025Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:48:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing on Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:22:29 GMT]]>The blipverts were also several hours of ads in less than a second, which was the part that could kill you.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22623584https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22623584Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:22:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing on Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:07 GMT]]>If anyone remembers the cyberpunk 80s TV show Max Headroom, then they know that TV was everywhere all the time in that universe. There was a scene in one episode where the police enter a suspect’s home and discover that she had an off switch on her TV. The cops react in shock to the fact, and one of them says “She’ll get twenty years for that.”

This universe also had "blipverts" which were a type of ad (advert..advertisement) that directly accessed your brain's motivation to get you to buy something. The only problem was that blipverts also had a high chance of killing the people that watched it.

This was a TV show from almost 40 years ago now and it looks like these would be the things that are coming in the next few years from now.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22602133https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22602133Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing on Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:34:40 GMT]]>This is the cyberpunk future that the 80s kids were so hyped for.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22600582https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22600582Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:34:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing on Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:35:21 GMT]]>This future fucking sucks

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/25179303https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/25179303Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:35:21 GMT