Hisense VIDAA TVs reportedly add unskippable startup ads before live TV

Hisense Smart TV owners are reporting a new ad placement that goes beyond the usual home-screen tiles and sponsored recommendations: a mandatory advertisement shown immediately after powering on the TV.

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📰 #Germany bravely defends its citizens against the terrifying menace of *unskippable ads* on Amazon Prime Video. 🚫📺 Because nothing says consumer protection like ensuring your 15 seconds remain ad-free while you decide which show to ignore next. 🙄🎥 #FirstWorldProblems
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-12/amazon-urteil-video-kunden-werbung #ConsumerProtection #UnskippableAds #AmazonPrimeVideo #FirstWorldProblems #AdFree #HackerNews #ngated
Streaming: Amazon darf Kunden auf Prime Video nicht zu Werbung zwingen

Eigentlich gab es bei Amazon Prime keine Werbung, später kostete werbefreies Streaming zusätzlich Geld. Dagegen hatten Verbraucherschützer geklagt – mit Erfolg.

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Meta slashes EU Facebook and Instagram subscription fees by 40% to meet regional regulatory demands

Meta cut the price of its ad-free subscription versions of Facebook and Instagram by 40% for EU users to comply with regulatory demands in the region.

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Thank you, dear #assholes, for negating my life.

The assholes here are #Twitch. I hated that platform before. I can't say that this #bullshit improves my view of them.

My username is fine *every-bloody-where else*, but not on Twitch. I do not care what reason they invented for their stupid policy. They can go fuck themselves.

(Also, they like to dump unskippable ads on people. I forgot that, but they reminded me really fast. Fuck 'em for this too.)

And before someone says that maybe it's a name clash with someone else. No, it is not. Just before I clicked the button, it was telling me there was no clash.

I'm not on Twitch often, but I saw a post here, and I thought it might be interesting... but with the reception that Twitch gave me, there's no way I'm going to watch now.

#FuckTwitch #StupidRules #username #UnskippableAds #ads #marketing #idiots #ActuallyAutistic