Google TV will just not stop finding new places to show you advertising

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• Google TV continues to evolve its user interface with new sections to display information.
• One of those recent additions has now been co-opted to also show advertising.

Google TV is a great platform for accessing all our favorite streaming services, with an interface that’s ideal for navigation from the couch. But it’s also far from perfect, and long-time users will definitely have a personal list of a few changes they’d love to see Google get around to making. One of the more controversial and widely derided efforts Google has made with its living room interface has been its growing embrace of prominent advertising. That’s only continuing now, as Google finds yet another way to push ads through Google TV.

It feels like Google’s really been trying to cook up new ways to use Google TV to sell us stuff, like those impossible-to-ignore QR code ads that we saw arrive last month. But more than that, it’s been playing with the system’s interface and trying out new places to display information. One of those is exactly where we saw Google promoting its new Advisors program earlier this month, in a row that shows up below your Continue Watching section.




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