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[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I still have and will continue to purchase TVs for as long as I can. Not smartTVs.

As a side note, I went to Best Buy and asked them about non-smartTVs. They literally said they had 2 models. A small, tiny TV and a larger TV which they did not have a model on the floor. They would have to bring it out or I would have to go the back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got a Samsung TV a couple of years ago. I use it with a Roku. It's not on my network. I'll keep it until it stops working because I think eventually TVs will refuse to work without an Internet connection.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At that point I'll just buy a monitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Verification can

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Sad people buy more to try to make themselves happy. Retail therapy.

People who serve ads have a vested interest in knowing when you're unhappy and what makes you unhappy, so they can capitalise on it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just use a pi-hole to block my LG TV from connecting to any services I have not approved. So it can connect to YouTube but not lg.trackingservices.brainscanner.com. Never seen an ad on my TV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I just don’t connect the snoopy bastard to my network 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This tech has been in TVs easily for the past ten years.

Did you know this stuff is in most modern cars, too? Fuck. EVERYTHING listens to you now.

I hate to use this phrase, but, back in my day, we used to call this SPYWARE and it was treated as a virus - it was highly unacceptable by people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This is still your day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Nope.

Don't like that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Never connect your tv to WiFi

Don’t buy connected anything

Just buy things that do the thing you want.

No consumer ever asked for a smart tv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Smart TVs are tools of the demiurge

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

For the lower tech people, smart TVs are just OkAy. They allow an end user to use Netflix etc. It's the fucking cameras mics and sensors illls in my Tv that's fucked up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it makes a sound you don't recognise, use the gun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

The printer lol

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