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I do volunteer IT work for a private school. One of the TVs quit working. It would turn on, but you couldn't select any of the inputs (eg HDMI). It wouldn't wor
by jtbayly 4y ago
I do volunteer IT work for a private school. One of the TVs quit working. It would turn on, but you couldn't select any of the inputs (eg HDMI). It wouldn't work until I registered it online with a verified email address and went through a long (multi-page) process on their website, where it asked me for all my favorite TV shows, used dark patterns to imply I needed to give them a Credit Card, etc.
So, yes, the pearl clutching is for a reason.
- gnicholas 4y agoYikes, what brand?
- pixl97 4y agoHeh, I can't wait until one of these 2-bit TV manufactures goes out of business and the update website gets co-opted by some hackers that write a new firmware update that asks for things like peoples CC to use it.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoHonestly? I wait for this to happen, preferably with a forced redirect to goatse.cx. THAT would improve the things.
- CyanBird 4y agoGiven the ass security that these things likely use, you might just be able to use man in the middle attacks against http and it might just work heh