> And it's not like you're not being tracked when you stream from a Roku stick / Chromecast. Believe it or not, there are ways to deliver content to a display

> And it's not like you're not being tracked when you stream from a Roku stick / Chromecast. Believe it or not, there are ways to deliver content to a display that don't involve Roku, Chromecast, or any other instrumented "platform". From the baseline of a society already saturated with ads, I don't think there's anything unusually evil about giving people the choice to share analytics/see ads in exchange for lower hardware prices. But when that choice is obfuscated or taken away entirely, and it becomes difficult or impossible to buy hardware that doesn't spy on you and/or hijack your attention, I see that as a big problem. It's one more step along the road to a world where consumers simply don't have access to general-purpose computer technology.