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Do you despise TV commercials? Or do you tolerate them because you don’t have to pay a subscription fee or pay a reduced rate? Or…maybe you’re a helpless cable-TV addict unable to break (expensive) old habits and wary of making the switch to all streaming all the time. If you have a tolerance for TV commercials, startup Telly has an unusual proposition for you. The company wants to give you a 55-inch 4K HDR TV/soundbar system for free in exchange for personal information advertisers will use to deliver targeted commercials. The thing is, ads aren’t delivered on the main screen.

Telly's second screen features a space on the right-hand side dedicated to the nonstop stream of advertisements.

A tech startup is giving away hundreds of thousands of TVs in the US that may collect data on its users.

Telly promises a smart television for free, if users are willing to deal with advertising on a second screen and the wholesale handing over of their usage data to marketers.

Telly wants to give you a 55 inch 4K TV for free (nothing's really free: it shows ads on a persistent second screen)