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I stopped connecting my TVs to the internet when Samsung started pushing notification ads for GameFly on a (at the time) 3k dollar first gen 4K tv - and they li
by dawnerd 7y ago
I stopped connecting my TVs to the internet when Samsung started pushing notification ads for GameFly on a (at the time) 3k dollar first gen 4K tv - and they lied and said no they’d never do that. They’ve all lost my trust.
- prawn 7y agoI disabled autoupdates on everything after a smart TV whose dashboard I'd laid out to suit me, auto-updated and insisted on dashboard apps that I never wanted and couldn't delete or hide. Got an Apple TV and have not touched the smart TV features since.
- sowbug 7y agoSounds like Vizio. Five years now and I still re-delete the Yahoo Finance app every couple months.
- jerrysievert 7y agoI once connected my vizio tv to the wifi. ended up having to change the wifi password, since there was no way to forget the network on the vizio. haven't had an update since, and not upset about that.
- jay_kyburz 7y agoWow, I didn't know it was that bad! I've never connected my tv's to the internet. I normally run a full PC behind them to access our media and for apps.
- McDev 7y agoIn addition to push notifications, they kept pushing their TV+ app to the first position of my apps selector. I kept removing it. Then I just switched off internet access. Smart TVs are dumb.
- petepete 7y agoThis might be of use. However I don't blame you for not using it altogether. https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4bcef1e52 https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...