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While I agree that smart TVs are a marketing ploy by the manufacturers to increase the revenue by shortening the lifecycle, I'm not buying the premise that I ca
by drillsteps5 2y ago
While I agree that smart TVs are a marketing ploy by the manufacturers to increase the revenue by shortening the lifecycle, I'm not buying the premise that I can protect my data by using dumb TVs. Everybody's using AppleTV, Amazon, Google, or Roku devices, which are perfectly capable of collecting that information and using it themselves or feeding it to various vendors (for a reasonable price). Not to mention that all content providers (ie Netflix) are doing exactly the same.
- throwaway48476 2y agoI have a raspberry pi for "smart" TV use.
- drillsteps5 2y ago...to stream from which content providers? They still have your viewing history, and that history eventually will end up at the data brokers to be perused by the interested parties. Which is really not that different from if you were using smart TV, except maybe a little bit more revenue for TV manufacturers.
- Gormo 2y ago> ...to stream from which content providers? For me, Netflix, Paramount Plus, and Disney+, along with Youtube. > They still have your viewing history So? That goes without saying. But the TV vendor doesn't get to spy on my date, I get a consistent and fast UI across all video sources and all TVs, and I can watch local, non-streaming video without any third parties being involved. And I have no issue using YouTube without signing in.
- nemomarx 2y agoIf you're using only a pi, I think you might be playing local video files acquired in a certain way, tbh. That's the most performance thing for a pi.
- throwaway48476 2y agoJellyfin