"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - The Hacker News Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - The Hacker News Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Given that there's an extremely simple and straightforward answer to your question (smart TV manufacturers sell data obtained from spying on users, and they need a way to get that data from the TV to their servers), I would encourage you to give some thought before making such an empty and vapid comment about voting habits on HN.