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They'll have to pay for the cellular connection themselves because I'm not gonna enter my wifi password into the tv lol. Been using a pc hooked up to the screen for ages. Screw "smart tv" features, slow and inconvenient as hell.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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This is why I switched to sceptre, they're good quality, low cost, dumb displays.
So glad I haven't got a LGtv, I'd have to buy a sledgehammer as well.
Lucky Cream and Goldstar (the L and G in LG) would be ashamed of this.
Viewer emotions will anger and frustration at their ads.
Holy shit there were so many ads in that article that I just stopped reading. It sucks LG is going down this route. They make really nice displays but now I dont ever want to buy an LG tv if its spying on me to serve me these ‘better’ ads. Fuck advertising. Its turned into a complete monster
It's just the addition of "AI". We've been doing the same thing for a long time. I used to work for an advertising data company over a decade ago, and they filtered all the ads for one of the big channels' streaming services in exactly the same way just with regular algorithms rather than AI. It's what would make ads for men's razors appear in the middle of a soap opera at 11PM because it knew the user was a man getting home from the pub.
You can't hardly even buy computer monitors without them anymore either. Every one of the higher end Samsung or LG monitors is starting to include "smart" bullshit.
You can probably just cover the camera with tape or smth.
it's not talking about tracking emotions from looking at the viewer, it's tracking the emotions in the script of the thing they're watching, so it knows what they like.
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Good that there's Pi-hole or similar solutions. Have both LG and Samsung at home and if I see what Pi-hole drops and how talkative both vendor TVs are... bloody hell! Don't use the stock functions anyway, Apple TVs are doing there job here so I took them offline a while ago. Anyway, the whole industry is turning into a completely wrong direction...
does not worth anything nowadays. they'll just retry with 8.8.8.8, a DoH service or something else. pretty sure they can also do without DNS, like chinese cameras use connections that cannot be blocked with a hosts file because they are going directly to a preprogrammed IP
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Echoes back to the Facebook leaker
There's no bar too low except that which receives continuous ceaseless push back against people who push things like this.
There isn't enough push back to matter. So the bar lowers.
Can we please ban electronic advertising already? And billboards? Society would be better off without them.
If we ban people from "earning" over a certain amount, they'll get round it through "gifts" or exchange in-kind or something, right? Same with ads. If we ban them, then product placement with plausible deniability will be rife, paid through essentially money-laundering methods, worse than it is now.
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Yikes, don’t ever wank in front of your TV.
Or wank lots in front of the TV. Make the collected data useless.
The TVs are reporting a lot of anger. Add more cameras!
"Gee, boss. Says here 87% of viewers were angry with the TV for spying on them."
Cool one more reason I’ll never connect my display to the internet.
Hell yeah. Emotionally raping people is super ethical