Would you accept a free 55" 4K HDR TV with sound bar if it was constantly displaying ads on a second attached smaller screen?
I know this isn’t HA specific, but I’m curious about the response from this HA community.
I wouldn’t be remotely interested in yet another data farming operation that also displays ads the entire time. I would take the free TV and remove the extra monitor and block all traffic to the internet for that MAC address and call it a day 
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Of course I will…
I will definitely screw it open, find, what is inside, hack it and use the second screen as a info display for my own stuff, like HA…
If not possible, just glue a nice printed banner with some piece of art in front of it.
But it surely never will display a commercial in my living room. Period.
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Well there is a way to deal with it using adguard and adguard android app. Why android app? Well because I’m lazy to get out from the bed when i watch tv.
I used to block ads on youtube using adguard app. When ad pops up, i just check on the app address and block it.
It reduced ads on youtube for 90%.
Drawback was that I blocked google play so I coudn’t check for upgrades.
By the time I was using lan cable to connect my tv to router.
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No.
The second screen is WAY too big.
And the tracking is FAR too onerous.