{"id":32271,"date":"2014-10-07T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/chartier-wrote-that-he-had-to-dig-through\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:26:04","slug":"chartier-wrote-that-he-had-to-dig-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/chartier-wrote-that-he-had-to-dig-through\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Chartier wrote that he had to dig through Samsung\u2019s Smart TV app store to find something called the SyncPlus app that disables pop-up ads on his TV. Again, that\u2019s hardly a good experience for users who are annoyed by the ads. If Samsung decides to switch pop-up ads on by default, it\u2019s odd that it would make users jump through so many hoops to switch them off.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Business Insider, Samsung said Chartier\u2019s experience was part of a partnership with Yahoo. The pop-ups are supposed to be opt-in, but for now users must switch them off. Here\u2019s the statement from Samsung, which includes instructions on how to turn the Yahoo pop-ups off:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/samsung-tv-pop-up-ads-2014-1\">Samsung Appears To Be Stuffing Pop-Up Ads For Yahoo In Its Smart TVs<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chartier wrote that he had to dig through Samsung\u2019s Smart TV app store to find something called the SyncPlus app that disables pop-up ads on his TV. Again, that\u2019s hardly a good experience for users who are annoyed by the ads. If Samsung decides to switch pop-up ads on by default, it\u2019s odd that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}