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> "Today's TV selection has a serious dependency on advertisements and user tracking" Well, no surprise there, people vote with their wallet after all, and as
by mschuster91 2y ago
> "Today's TV selection has a serious dependency on advertisements and user tracking"
Well, no surprise there, people vote with their wallet after all, and as a manufacturer you either go with the flow and subsidize your devices with ads and spyware, or you go and sink: TVs these days are commodities, unlike earlier times there is no reason for brand loyalty.
Only chance if you want to escape the racket is pay the true price of the and get a Digital Signage line, bonus benefit, the components might actually be higher quality.
Personal opinion: governments should go and ban selling goods of any kind below-cost. All that does is help create oligopolies where only the rich can participate because everyone else can't play the games of scale.
- kibwen 2y ago> governments should go and ban selling goods of any kind below-cost This is called "dumping" and is usually already illegal based on anti-competitive grounds, though mostly seems to only be enforced for international trade.
- mschuster91 2y agoIt's also really REALLY hard to prove dumping tactics, unfortunately, at least if there isn't a global commodity for the resource in question - it is easy to prove dumping/loss leads for stuff like grain, rice, coffee or whatnot, but a TV with its complex supply chains?