"I thought smart TVs would make my life easier. What I got instead was endless frustration. My four Roku TCL Smart TVs crawled through menus, took forever to load apps, and bombarded me with ads at every turn. I was thinking about replacing them when I tried something different: blocking ads through my router. This simple change made my TVs run faster than they had since the day I bought them."
"Here's what I didn't know: smart TVs are essentially computers that juggle two different tasks. You want to watch Netflix, but your TV is simultaneously downloading promotional banners, video previews, and collecting data about your viewing habits. This background activity occurs without your notice, but it consumes the limited processing power and memory your TV has available. Even expensive smart TVs run on pretty basic hardware compared to your laptop or phone."
Smart TVs often run sluggishly because they perform streaming alongside continuous background tasks such as downloading promotional banners, video previews, and sending viewing data. These background processes consume limited processor cycles and memory, and multiple ad networks competing magnify the slowdown. Blocking ads at the network level stops promotional content and tracking traffic before it reaches devices, freeing CPU, memory, and bandwidth. Configuring a home router (for example, the UniFi Gateway ad-blocking feature on Ubiquiti hardware) to block ads for every device can immediately restore menu responsiveness and greatly speed app loading on smart TVs.
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