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An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Pi hole FTW.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

How bout no

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now all you need is a built-in camera to prove Orwell was right... only off by a few decades, really.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago

I don’t want an OS on my next TV…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My video projector is dumb, and that's the way I like it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Seeing this just makes me want a tv that is just a monitor, no crap you just plug in your own thing whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Done! Take any Smart TV, factory reset it. And never let it connect to the Internet again .

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

For fuck’s sake.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have an old 60 inch 1080p TV from the early days of smart tvs. It has a built in app for plex and youtube, a remote that works as a pointer, it's insanely slow but it has zero ads and I'm never ever getting a newer model.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Up until that TV dies.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Don’t ever connect them to the internet. Period.

If it’s required, buy a different tv. It’s not difficult to look that up beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I suspect in the near future it will be impossible to buy a TV without spyware/adware. The only option will be to not connect it to the internet and run your own Raspberry PI/SBC based solution.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff and so won’t the premium televisions.

The super budget/sold at a loss TVs will absolutely be gutted for spyware.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff

I hope this is just marketing then...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff and so won’t the premium televisions.

I have a feeling premium TVs won't escape adware/spyware either. They can get their margin on the hardware and earn some more money on spyware; I don't see what incentive they have to not do both. I hope I am wrong though.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

The biggest ad giant in the world already controls my TV's OS

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My current TV is clawing my firewall like squirrel with rabies. I'm sure the next one will too.

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

I just give smartTVs no network at all

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Please enable internet access to setup your new TV, otherwise no TV for you.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Then you turn around and return it. Don’t encourage that behavior by just letting it happen.