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embedding-shapetoday at 11:25 AM3 repliesview on HN

I'm wondering if we in Europe gets vastly different experience compared to Americans or elsewhere in the world. People complain about LG having ads everywhere in the monitors, displays and what not, but none of our LG products (bought and used in Spain) have any ads anywhere. I'm sitting here with a LG monitor and our main TV is a LG OLED TV, neither of them have ads anywhere, although I haven't booted Windows in a couple of days and I guess I won't, until this malware issue been fixed.

But still, is it possible Americans are receiving more ads than in other parts of the world? Certainly online sentiment gives me that impression.


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throwa356262today at 11:30 AM

In general, yes.

But in case of LG TVs, they record your activities in EU too. You can opt out, but the settings has a very non-descriptive name ("live plus") and resets by itself when you are not looking.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-t...

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bloqstoday at 11:37 AM

Same here in the UK

15155today at 11:30 AM

> Americans are receiving more ads than in other parts of the world

Ads aren't free, so yes, it would stand to reason that people in the largest consumer market in the world might garner more ad spend.

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