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Oh, true, forgot that one; it’s even better! Some also (used to?) connect to any open wifi nearby if you forgot to give it access to yours. How thoughtful… Pre
by ElFitz 5y ago
Oh, true, forgot that one; it’s even better! Some also (used to?) connect to any open wifi nearby if you forgot to give it access to yours. How thoughtful…
Pretty much the reason I scorned every single "smart tv"
- flatiron 5y agoMy TV seriously wanted to put itself in some sort of demo mode if I didn’t connect it to wifi. That included restarting itself and redoing the settings every 30 minutes or whatever. It’s an insane ultimatum! So yeah it’s in a zone it can ping home base and nothing less. But for the 99% of people who can’t do that crap it sucks.
- quadrifoliate 5y agoY'all should really start naming manufacturers and models so I can avoid them.
- flatiron 5y agoIt rhymes with “ram tongue”
- quadrifoliate 5y agoI am not surprised. Samsung are well known for bundling a load of crapware on Android phones to the point where every review of lightly themed Android phones screams "clean, stock interface".
- summm 5y agowhy are you not just saying "Samsung"?
- ElFitz 5y agoHere LG ads: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-commercials-content-store https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-... Samsung connecting to open WiFi: https://forum.developer.samsung.com/t/if-you-choose-to-not-connect-your-samsung-smart-tv-to-wifi-it-will-secretly-connect-to-your-neighbours-passwordless-wifi/7926 https://forum.developer.samsung.com/t/if-you-choose-to-not-c... Samsung TV ads (you’ll find more sources, but adweek seemed a pretty ironic choice): https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/samsung-ads-debuts-three-new-ad-offerings-boosts-samsung-tv-plus-experience/ https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/samsung-ads-debuts-thre... Samsung, LG, Sony & others spying on what you watch: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/smarter-living/how-to-stop-your-smart-tv-from-tracking-what-you-watch.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/smarter-living/how-to-sto... Quite a lot to avoid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- waste_monk 5y agoI haven't had a TV in years, but if I had to get a large display for some reason I'd go for a dedicated large monitor + a set top box or some media centre appliance to actually play the media/tune in to TV. You pay a lot more (I was looking at a Dell 55" monitor for around $5k AUD, where an equivalent size TV is $1K from a name brand manufacturer), but IMHO it's worth it. Or maybe skip straight to an LED projector, I hear those are nice.
- fuzxi 5y agoLook into digital signage displays. They're just big dumb monitors, but tend to be cheaper than similarly-sized displays that are marketed as monitors. Just glancing at Amazon, I see a 65-inch 4k digital signage display for under $1200 USD.
- no_time 5y agoI always wanted to experiment with one of these but fortunately I managed to avoid them so far. I wonder what would happen if you limited their bandwidth to a couple of kbps. Just enough to get the pings across but make any ad download excruciatingly slow. Or write some kind of DPI rule that drops packets to the internet above a certain size.
- ElFitz 5y agoPeople apparently mostly rely on PiHole & other similar options for that.
- no_time 5y agoBlocking outright is probably an edge case these devices will detect and handle differently in the following years as more and more people will be aware of the option. That's why I think experimenting with more advanced sabotage will pay off in the long run.
- ElFitz 5y agoWell, we always could simply open them up and remove the WiFi antenna. Unless it’s deeply integrated in some chip or another.