Samba TV

If you own a Samba TV television and want the short answer, it is on what you can refuse: for each kind of collection — what you watch, what you say, the adverts you are shown, who it is shared with, where you are — whether Samba TV's own documents say you can decline, say you must accept, or don't say at all. Every answer there quotes the sentence it came from. Everything below this is the evidence behind it.

Words in each of Samba TV's agreement documents, from the latest captured version. Together: 9,896 words, 49 minutes read aloud at 200 words a minute. 3 addresses serving byte-identical text were counted once.

3 captured pages not counted, and why

These are held in the archive exactly like every other capture — readable, downloadable, diffed. They are left out of the figure above because they are not documents a Samba TV television owner is held to. Each is still linked, so the arithmetic can be checked rather than trusted.

Document	Words	Not counted because
Samba TV — opt out	1,261	Byte-identical to a document already counted at another address.
samba-cookie-policy-10453d	1,165	Byte-identical to a document already counted at another address.
Samba TV — privacy policy	389	Byte-identical to a document already counted at another address.

Named in Samba TV's own agreements: Comscore, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Samba TV, The Trade Desk. Each of these appears by name in the text of a document you accept.

The consent dial: words, by document

9 agreement documents counted of 12 watched · one full turn is 0.8 h read aloud at 200 wpm

1. samba-your-privacy-handbook 1,987 w 10 min
2. samba-terms-of-service 1,964 w 10 min
3. Samba — notice of right to opt out 1,261 w 6 min
4. Samba — cookie policy 1,165 w 6 min
5. Samba — third-party data partners 960 w 5 min
6. Samba TV — third-party data partners 910 w 5 min
7. samba-privacy-principles 835 w 4 min
8. samba-consumer-privacy-center 425 w 2 min
9. Samba — privacy policy 389 w 2 min

Segments run clockwise from the top in the order of the list, largest first; point at either to match them. The rim is marked every quarter hour of reading aloud.

Every reading of every Samba TV document on one time axis. Each cell is a period of the axis, lit by the most serious thing a capture found in it; the fine marks inside are the captures themselves, at the moment they happened. A dim cell is a period with no capture. A hatched cell is a page we asked for and were not given. A document that has never returned a readable page has a row with nothing lit: the archive is watching it, and holds nothing yet.

Captures over time

24 documents · 2026-06-27 to 2026-09-06

Agreements

Samba — privacy policy13v

Samba — notice of right to opt out9v

Samba — third-party data partners8v

Samba TV — third-party data partners10v

Samba TV — privacy policy11v

Samba TV — opt out9v

Consumer Privacy Center11v

Your Privacy Handbook10v

Privacy Principles10v

Terms of Service9v

Cookie Policy 10453d9v

Samba — cookie policy9v

The Pitch

Samba — home (post-migration)7v

Samba — technology overview7v

Samba — solutions7v

Samba — insights7v

Samba TV — technology8v

Samba — about0v

Samba TV — home (legacy domain)10v

Samba TV — insights / reports8v

Weekend Viewing Patterns Are Shifting10v

International Content Found Its American Audience10v

Family Viewing Made a Quiet Return10v

Streaming Crosses a Quiet Threshold10v

Jul 2026AugSep

first captureunchangedminor editmajor rewrite / content removedremoved by the publisherserved from another domain

no capture in this period asked, got no page: refused, unreachable, or never seen

The documents you have to accept to use the television - terms, privacy policies, ACR and voice notices. These are what you are legally held to, and the ones most likely to be quietly edited.

What the company tells advertisers it can do with the data you agreed to hand over. Written to persuade buyers, so it is usually far plainer than the policy.