To get them to stop they need to lose both the original sale and the additional advertising revenue. Right now their thinking is:
- People are buying our TVs
- Putting advertising on them isn't causing our sales to drop
- Therefore it's costing us next to nothing to do.
- It often gets us extra revenue if they connect to the internet.
- If they don't connect, we still more than covered our costs.
There is no downside for them. Only upside. The equation needs to change for them to stop doing it.
No, which is why people saying "Buy it and don't connect it to the internet" isn't helping. More people need to not buy it and tell other people not to buy it.