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At least for the time being it's still possible to keep TVs off the internet and bypass this garbage. I've got a 2020 Sony and have never seen an ad on it. I'm
by scrooched_moose 6y ago
At least for the time being it's still possible to keep TVs off the internet and bypass this garbage. I've got a 2020 Sony and have never seen an ad on it.
I'm expecting these days are numbered though; some combination of ethernet-over-HDMI, Amazon Sidewalk, built-in 5G antennas, or just straight up refusing to work without a network connection feels like it's just a couple years away.
- Buttons840 6y agoImagine a TV that must be connected to the internet at all times being hacked so that it only plays educational videos about the evils of Smart TV's 24/7.
- saxelsen 6y agoThere's a good Darknet Diaries podcast episode about Hacker Giraffe, a guy who hacked 50,000 open printers to tell the owners their devices were exposed.
- nitrogen 6y agoWay, way, way back in the day there was a tool called Simba and a search engine that you could use to find tons of music, etc. that would open download links in the Simba app. Turns out, that was just an SMB client connecting to open Windows shares.
- habeebtc 6y agoI cannot seem to find it now, but I read couple years back something about TV manufacturers considering embedding a cell and sim card SoC into these smart TV's for exactly this reason.
- m463 6y agoThat would be 5G iot stuff. Sort of like wifi you don't own.
- nuker 6y ago> built-in 5G antennas, or just straight up refusing to work without a network connection feels like it's just a couple years away Tesla cars now.