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Anon buys a TV without researching (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If that's real, then it's full refund or terrorism upon both the vendor and manufacturer.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I can’t believe this is real. I’ve just bought a relatively cheap Samsung smart TV and it’s got nothing close to this. I would hardly even say it’s got adverts since it’s mostly just recommendations from my apps in the same way they all do now, I don’t think I’ve actually seen it try to sell me anything or get me to watch something that wasn’t free.

Who the fuck would buy a TV like this? If a company was going to introduce on-screen ads like this they’d start really small.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ads and bloat are the main reason I still use my 1080p Bravia from 15 yrs ago, which btw still looks great.

Well, that and that I have better uses for 1k usd

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

I bought a 47" or 49" tv for a few hundred AUD - it was a dumb TV - 1080p from memory. Thing lasted 10 + years, reasonable picture quality and only needed a Chromecast and eventually got a ShieldTV.

That TV since died after 4 moves, two of which were 350km+ but man it was money well spent.

We've now got a 60something" Hisense which is a bloated crapware box, it's not allowed on the network; same with the reverse cycle dryer, or any "smart" home appliance. The volume of traffic these devices send wherever is absurd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't know if it's something you want to tackle, but making a separate VLAN on your home LAN and shifting all the IoT/smart devices to that network can keep them from whatever snooping or spying these devices might do on your LAN that you work and live on. Plus you can more easily monitor the unreasonably chatty ones and block them or at least prune off their ad-seeking IP addresses. PiHole for a home LAN can help a lot too, but that's another discussion.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)

First rule of smart TVs: if you really have to buy a smart TV, then never connect it to the internet!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I've read at some other post that some smart TVs won't work at all if you don't connect it to the internet.