To broadcast ads to its devices, especially TVs using the Tizen OS, Samsung uses ad servers where the ads are processed and then sent to the user’s device. Here’s a list of Samsung ad servers that you can use to control (block) ads on your devices
Samsung server chart
| samsungads.com | ADS server |
| config.samsungads.com | ADS server |
| ads.samsungads.com | ADS server |
| samsungqbe.com | server Smart Hub |
| samsungotn.net | Software update servers |
| samsung.net | developer’s website internal company portal |
| ads.samsung.com | AD subdomain of the main site, currently unused |
| adgear.com | Samsung Ads Canada |
| adgrx.com | Adjust.com ad servers, the company is an approved Samsung Ads partner. |
| samsungacr.com | collection of telemetry data on viewing |
| samsungadhub.com | Old Samsung ad server from 2011-2013, now not owned by Samsung. It is now a spam domain. |
| samsungtifa.com | Identifier server for displaying advertisements |
| samsungcloudsolution.com | Software update servers |
| samsungcloudsolution.net | Software update servers |
| samsungrm.net | Remote monitoring of Samsung devices |
| samsungyosemite.com | portal for business products |
There are lists on the Internet that categorize the above sites as Samsung ad servers, but in fact they are not. In fact, Samsung has only one advertising server: samsungads.com. In the past a subdomain ads.samsung.com was used, but now it is not used, Samsung.com is the main portal for consumers, which includes hundreds of sites for different countries in the form of a multisite. Third-party servers from certified companies can be used to display ads, but all of them work through the main ad server, transmitting only back information about the user’s interaction with the ads, e.g. adgrx.com is an ad server of Adjust.com
Samsung servers to process and display ads
Samsung utilizes a multi-server infrastructure to facilitate the delivery and monitoring of advertisements on its devices. To streamline this process, data is collected from the device upon online activity and transmitted to the samsungtifa.com server. This data includes device type, permission settings for personalized advertising, and other relevant information.
Subsequently, the collected data is processed and relayed to the main server, samsungads.com, which oversees the distribution of advertisements to the designated devices. Upon advertisement display, further data pertaining to user interaction, such as clicks, viewing duration, and other telemetry data, is transmitted to samsungacr.com. This server also receives additional information, such as search queries, while the device is operational.
The advertisement generation and processing are centralized through these three servers: samsungtifa.com, samsungads.com, and samsungacr.com. Additionally, certified advertising partners may contribute to this process, potentially involving their own servers.
