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Just don't ever give your tv the wifi password. I have a thousand times more confidence at microsoft will keep the xbox operating system up to date and reasonab
by walrus01 3y ago
Just don't ever give your tv the wifi password. I have a thousand times more confidence at microsoft will keep the xbox operating system up to date and reasonably secure (yes, it has ads on the homescreen) than I do that any smart tv vendor will still support their crap OS in 5, 7, 10 years from now.
Use an xbox or a PS5 to drive the TV and run the apps on that.
- jwells89 3y agoI use an Apple TV 4K, but yeah, same idea. I was mainly just wondering if Costco models had significant differences in terms of non-smart features.
- aceazzameen 3y agoMy TV and the few IoT devices I own are all on their own wifi network under their own subnet. I don't care what happens on that network. Maybe routers should come with similar automatic features to sequester unsecure IoT devices from everyday users' networks.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoThe issue isn't (primarily) your TV abusing the local network. The issue is your TV sending all your viewing habits back to the manufacturer to sell them, including by doing video recognition on videos being played through HDMI inputs.
- aceazzameen 3y agoI think I was mostly referring to keeping things secure with updates, or lack thereof with TVs. Pihole does a good job of keeping ads and nonsense off my Sony TV. Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc already know my viewing habits and probably sell it to each other for all I know.
- navjack27 3y agoThat is so much compute work. How could they do that realistically on a TV? I plug my computer into the HDMI and now they are looking at everything I do?
- JoshTriplett 3y agoThey're already doing advanced image processing for some of the advertised features of the TV, like "AI picture enhancement".