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If Costco is removing "smart" features from TVs, I might get a membership just to buy one TV there.

• majewsky 7y ago
  Since the Smart TV shit started, I've moved to just buying large PC monitors and using them with my PC. (It helps that I'm a cable cutter. There's nothing interesting on TV that's not streaming somewhere.)
  • nitrogen 7y ago
    That sounds great. How large do computer monitors go?
    • imtringued 7y ago
      40" and more
      • myrandomcomment 7y ago
        I do not understand this. Buy the TV as it is bigger and cheaper. Just do not configure the WiFi and do not plug the Ethernet in. I have 2 Samsung’s that are set at just out of the box with no internet.
        • technofiend 7y ago
          Some smart TVs will find an open AP if you don't otherwise configure them for internet access, hence the swing to dumb TVs and monitors for people who want to guarantee no logging of their viewing habits.
          • myrandomcomment 7y ago
            I have heard this before but yet to see anyone show proof of this. I used to have the Samsungs wired but I used DNS to block the tracking. Here is link to the info I used: https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4bcef1e52 https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b... At some point I realized I did not even want to use the TV apps and did not care to maintain the PC with Kodi on it. I just switched to an AppleTV for everything and paid for MrMC (Kodi port for AppleTV that supports SMB/NFS mounting). So much simpler.
            • technofiend 7y ago
              It took a second to dig out, but on a hunch I added "site:reddit.com" to my search criteria. https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/bpjky4/worried_about_your_smart_tv_listening_in_simply/ https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/bpjky4/worried_ab...
• DubiousPusher 7y ago
  They were doing this more when Smart TV features were kind of an upsell. Now that they're standard they don't do this as much.