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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The TVs absolutely have automated content recognition. They use Unruly and nexxen.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250122111405/https://unruly.co/vidaa-partnership/

https://nexxen.com/nexxen-vidaa/

I also stumbled across a diagram lately that showed how this data eventually flowed into displaying ads for medical products. The size of this platform behind the scenes would be huge.