Philips 55OLED806 switching on to show ads

by SlowStopper

Hi, About a month ago I bought 55OLED806 Google TV. I think I'm starting to regret that decision.

The TV will randomly just switch itself on to show ads for buying films. It's not frequent, but I feel violated - it's one thing to get ads when you actually use TV, it's completely different ballpark when you're trying to have romantic dinner with you SO only to have TV go blasting trailer for "Dune" (as good as this film is).

I have PiHole for my network installed, but apparently it caj go around this. I don't want to disconnect the TV from internet completely, since Android apps for Netflix etc are very convenient; however I'm willing to block everything Google, YouTube included (I don't use it on TV).

I tried googling for the solution, but it seems almost as if none else noticed this issue. Have you?

AdamH21

WTF? This is not the right behaviour. Make sure you dont retail mode on or if someone is not making fun of you and is not casting videos to your TV.

I have the same model.

Also, you do not have Google TV, it is just Android TV.

virmele

There is no ads. You have malware or some rogue app

mrgreyeyes

Can it be that you see the trailers from Google Movies? Could the source button be pushed somewhere? Cover the ir receiver just to make sure it isn't receiving rogue signals.

connery_007

Yeah sounds like it's set to retail mode, which can be changed in the settings. Did you RTFM?

Seventh_Letter

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