Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now...

Edit: Playstation Product Manager says this is actually a new bug. I really doubt it but they do seem to be "fixing it".

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[–] lohky@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My piece of shit, $1800 Vizio TV does that. I can't even default it to a specific input without clicking through an ad.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God, that's awful. Is it connected to the Internet or are they internal ads? I suppose you've already looked into a piratefix firmware update or something? I have a big roku tv that i keep away from my wifi lest ads sneak into my experience too

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd kill Internet to it if my wife didn't leave on random free streaming shit like Pluto to play for the dogs when we leave. The steps it takes for me to get to streamio are nuts. Boot on TV -> close ad and navigation to Fire stick -> listen to auto play ad while piece of shit fire stick loads UI -> finally get to watch what I want.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's dystopian nightmare shit. Never buying a smart tv. Fuck having the nicest thing if that's what it takes to deal with

[–] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sounds like a job for a rasberry pi with pihole installed: https://pi-hole.net/

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've really wanted to start tinkering with rasberry pi, so maybe that'll be a fun first project!