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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bonus points for buying a smart TV to get the heavily discounted price and never connecting it to the internet.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some of the brands have been reported to not allow you to do anything until it has an internet connection to do its "initial setup" (or some such excuse).

I hope I can find a list of which ones to avoid when I have to eventually replace my old dumb TV.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then right back to the store it goes and labelled as defective so it gets tossed resulting in losses for all companies involved.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Of course, but that's a lot more effort than it should be.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Even then, you're still having to wait for its CPU to fuck around with the image and sound before it actually outputs it,