Mi TV Forcing Ads on Users Before Switching HDMI Modes

Xiaomi is known for offering its products at highly affordable prices and while the company makes a large deal almost honest pricing and express profit on the actual cost, information technology covers its bases by showing its users ads and selling ad-enabled services. This has become the norm on MIUI phones and you will see Xiaomi inserting ads anywhere information technology finds empty space – within its own apps like file manager, Mi Calendar, and fifty-fifty in the multitasking menu.

At present, a user has complained that Xiaomi is forcing them to spotter ads on their Mi TV. Although ads on TVs are pretty common, the user reported being forced to watch a threescore-second commercial every time they switch from one HDMI connection to another. So evidently, Xiaomi has found a pretty clever and cunning fashion of bulldozing ads onto its Mi Television users.

My xiaomi tv simply forced me to watch a 60 second ad between switching from hdmi1 to hdmi3. Twice. from Xiaomi

The user, who goes by the alias of imanimmigrant on Reddit, says that they have been using numerous Xiaomi products including a smartphone, air purifier, water filter, smart security cameras, dash cam, rice cooker, electric toothbrush, router, and Mi Notebook and none of these forces them to see ads before using the device. Knowing that they are from China, the vast range makes sense.

Clearly, this way of forcing ads, especially when it comes to a bespeak where it obstructs usability, is invasive and sad. Notably, the issue is non new and nosotros were able to spot an old complaint on the MIUI Forum in which the user reports that they take to await for a series of ads to stop earlier beingness able to actually use the Mi TV.

There is a temporary solution to this, though, and it requires yous to filter out sure URLs associated with these ads. To be able to exercise that, you must add the addresses in the link in a higher place to the filtering settings of your Wi-Fi router. There is, withal, no direct option within the Mi TV to remove ads.

Since the aforementioned complaint comes from China, we're not sure if Indian users likewise have to face up similar hindrances while using their Mi TVs, especially the older versions running PatchWall Bone.

If you're in India, we'd love to know if yous see like intrusive ads on your Mi Boob tube. Meanwhile, y'all can add comments beneath if you want to provide some information and we'll be updating the article accordingly.