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You can make a Smart TV into a dumb TV by simply not allowing it to connect to the Internet, ever.

• boring_twenties 7y ago
  In a hn thread the other day, someone told me their TV will simply connect to any open wifi networks it comes across, just to phone home. I couldn't get the brand or model out of them, though.
  • beamatronic 7y ago
    That’s awful. We need to find out that brand.
    • boring_twenties 7y ago
      Well, there's another guy now saying the same thing in this thread, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21010777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21010777 Also on this thread is the supposition that eventually TVs will just have their own cellular data connections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21010790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21010790 Sickening, really.