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by calbear81 2712 days ago
Given the fall in prices of these panels, couldn't you theoretically build a business where the TV is absolutely FREE in exchange it's programmed to track some anonymized usage behaviors for ad targeting AND the TV actually has an ad network built in that shows ads at a reasonable rate (assuming it can do things like pause Netflix automatically and insert an ad).
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"Free-PC.Com, one of the most audacious experiments in advertising, said yesterday that it would no longer give away computers and Internet access."

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway...