Your older LG OLED TV will soon be cursed with screensaver ads – here’s how to banish them

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An LG OLED TV connected a purple and pinkish inheritance showing screensaver ads

(Image credit: Future / LG)

It's already beautiful difficult to debar being bombarded pinch TV ads, whether you're watching Prime Video aliases pausing YouTube – and LG is now making things a small worse by bringing its pesky screensaver ads to older OLED TV models.

Last month, we reported that caller LG TVs, including premium OLEDs, were sneakily starting to show screensaver ads aft sets had been near idle for a while. Some testing connected our ain LG G4 confirmed that to beryllium nan case. Now, FlatpanelsHD is reporting that those ads are rolling retired to older models making love backmost to 2020, too.

If you ain LG models for illustration nan LG GX OLED (2020), LG B1 OLED (2021) aliases LG B2 OLED (2022), you could soon spot nan screensaver ads turned connected by default. It seems they're besides spreading to much caller models for illustration nan LG C4 OLED (2024), which is galling considering we see it to different beryllium 1 of nan best TVs you tin buy.

Currently, nan full-screen ads look to beryllium mostly LG-related, promoting LG's ain channels. But an article from LG Ad Solutions antecedently suggested they could yet beryllium expanded to see third-party ones – and there's grounds connected Reddit that this mightiness already beryllium happening. Fortunately, location is simply a measurement to move them off...

How to move them off

LG G4 settings to region screensaver ads

There is presently a elemental measurement to region nan default screensaver ads connected your LG TV. Just spell to Settings > General > System Settings > Additional Settings, past scroll down to nan unsubtly-named Screen Saver Promotion. Toggle this disconnected and you'll beryllium spared immoderate much unsavory promos erstwhile your TV is idle.

Hopefully, this action will stay successful nan menus of LG TVs, because watching existent TV shows is quickly becoming a sideshow to being blasted pinch ads connected galore streaming platforms.

Earlier this month, nan Financial Times reported that ads connected Prime Video would “ramp up a small spot much into 2025” (according to Head of Prime Video International, Kelly Day). That follows nan streaming work asking viewers to salary an other $2.99/£2.99 a month to beryllium spared from ads earlier this year.

But Prime Video and LG are acold from alone, pinch YouTube precocious introducing region surface ads and Roku delivering Instagram-style shoppable ads to smart TVs. Let's conscionable dream nan best smart glasses for illustration nan Meta Ray-Bans don't commencement getting akin ideas.

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Mark is TechRadar's Senior news editor. Having worked successful tech publicity for a ludicrous 17 years, Mark is now attempting to break nan world grounds for nan number of camera bags hoarded by 1 person. He was antecedently Cameras Editor astatine some TechRadar and Trusted Reviews, Acting editor connected Stuff.tv, arsenic good arsenic Features editor and Reviews editor connected Stuff magazine. As a freelancer, he's contributed to titles including The Sunday Times, FourFourTwo and Arena. And successful a erstwhile life, he besides won The Daily Telegraph's Young Sportswriter of nan Year. But that was earlier he discovered nan unusual joys of getting up astatine 4am for a photograph sprout successful London's Square Mile.

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