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If the smart features can be turned off, then they won't be able to force ads onto you [1,2], or spy on you [3]. They are antifeatures, taking control of your T
by deogeo 7y ago
If the smart features can be turned off, then they won't be able to force ads onto you [1,2], or spy on you [3]. They are antifeatures, taking control of your TV so they may extract more money from you, one way or another. Being able to turn them off would completely defeat that.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201561
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202138
[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/lg-smart-tvs-send-viewing-habits-filenames-back-to-manufacturer/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/lg-smart-tvs-send-viewing-habi...
- shawnz 7y agoAlthough troubling, I don't think this is something for which smart TV technology itself is at fault. Plenty of smart TVs exist without ads and they are apparently still profitable.
- deogeo 7y agoI agree, it's not the technology itself. I think it's due to the industry maturing and consolidating, and simply optimizing - they look for new avenues of profit, and they happened to have found user-hostile ones. But be careful with "TVs exist without ads and they are apparently still profitable" - 'profitable' won't stop them if adding ads means they could be more profitable.