> they don't want to pay the price of that feature. Well put - the price, not the cost. Manufacturers can make some options unreasonably difficult/expensive/ha

> they don't want to pay the price of that feature. Well put - the price, not the cost. Manufacturers can make some options unreasonably difficult/expensive/hard to find (non-smart TVs, CPUs with ECC support, printers not made by Satan..), and then when consumers, only offered a series of products that share the same, usually hidden, defect, buy that product, instead of investing time and money far disproportionate to the actual cost of making a product without that defect, this is hailed as "The consumer has spoken!" Until electronics shops start clearly marking smart TVs with all the ways they spy on you and show you ads, and place right next to them an equivalent model, somewhat more expensive but clearly marked as privacy-friendly, you can't attribute this to "voting with your wallet".