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I think basically because (1) they can and (2) no one has stepped in to prevent them from doing it.

But it's absurd.

It seems worse for some videos too which made me think it was YouTube but I can't see YouTube inserting ads mid-video or a few seconds before the end of a video. It's local ads too for my small town so it's targeted very precisely to me.

Other crap is resetting the opt-out after a software update. And also putting the agree or disagree checkbox on a separate page than the actual terms you just read. You read it on one page then exit, look at a bunch of terms and scroll to find the matching document that has the agree or disagree checkbox for one of the TOS documents you read. It's a mess.

Never buy a smart TV just buy a monitor without any smarts.

The sound cuts out on it too you'll miss every few words almost as if it were censoring it.

I'm afraid someday it will not work if it can't update its OS.

> . How in the hell does Samsung, a device manufacturer justify inserting ads over content thats not even theirs?

Earnings growth for shareholders. Something-something-"advertising revolution/innovation".