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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 249 points 3 months ago (21 children)

"each new connected TV platform user generates around $5 per quarter in data and advertising revenue."

Fuck me, this is the amount of money that's enough motivation for them to ruin my experience and make me angry?

I guess regular users have much higher tolerance to ads than me, but our home has a strict zero ad policy.

[–] Zwiebel 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've heard somewhere else that it's a 50/50 split between the TV sales and ad revenue

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Roku is selling televisions at a loss with the intent on injecting ads based on whats on screen including detecting when you pause a show/game and injecting ads

Patient Pending...

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