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LG TVs' integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions
- jonplackett 2y agoHow can someone write an entire article about this without any mention of how totally creepy it is.
- TheBozzCL 2y agoThey do talk about it in the end, briefly. Otherwise, it almost sounds like a sponsored article.
- jonplackett 2y agoYeah massive advertorial vibes from this whole article. The only criticism I can see if for ‘targeted ads’ and then immediately followed up with how most people do prefer seeing relevant ads though!
- m463 2y agoThey have advertisers too, and might share advertisers with LG
- discardedrefuse 2y agoMy LG had an update last week that made me re-do all the user agreements. I don't know if that has anything to do with this. As always, I opted out of most of the agreements, but (as always) there are 2 agreements I cannot opt out of and still use any apps. So...what set-top boxes are available for privacy minded people?
- 05 2y agoPlex + Sonarr + Radarr oh, sorry.. I think I misread 'privacy' :)
- discardedrefuse 2y agoYou're gonna want Jellyfin for privacy. Plex is hostile.
- barbazoo 2y agoWhat’s the difference between sonarr and radarr? They seem to do similar things, even sharing common text in the GH description
- davesmylie 2y agoI would consider not using a "smart tv" at all. I have had an old PC running my TV for many years now - it's fast, so doesn't get bogged down rendering applications, I can play any content that I have using full resolution, and as it's just a PC, ublock origin takes care of any ads. Depressingly I found it quite hard to replace my truly dumb, 55" Veon a few years back, so I've had to buy a TV with some smarts (a HiSense) - however, it's still just being used as a dumb tv (ie, an HDMI input). I do have mild concerns about updates introducing some unwanted behavior despite this, so it's either not connected to the net, or, if I'm playing around with trying to manage it via HA, it's blocked from leaving the LAN at the router.
- amy214 2y agoThe main thing is to make sure it has no way to access the internet. Just USING it as a dumb TV isn't enough because these things - this TV firmware - it takes snapshots of whatever is playing (even in dumb mode) and utilizes whatever fingerprinting tech on that data - https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/your-smart-tv-watching-what-you-watch https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/your-smart-tv-watching-what-you...
- hedora 2y agoAir gap the tv (wipe wifi settings too), then plug it into either an Apple TV or a Linux box. Everything else is a trap. If you go the Linux route, I recommend the BeeLink SER series, but disable dynamic video card overclocking and get a Bluetooth dongle and usb extension cord to plug it into (I get lots of RF interference for BT, but not WiFi). If you go the appletv route be sure to use an iPhone to recalibrate the colors, and also try telling it to match the refresh rate to the source material instead of attempting inverse telecine. Those two features gave me at least as big a step function in picture quality as my last TV upgrade did.
- discardedrefuse 2y agoI appreciate the input. I'm not convinced Apple is really that much better than Google or Microsoft at collecting my data. As for Linux, I love Linux and run it on my desktop, laptop, and servers. But its not great for media. There were always issues getting DRM'd 4K content to play from streaming services. And there's a level jank, that I don't want to deal with on a TV. I think for now I'm switching to my Xbox for media consumption. It has all the apps, works with my LG "magic remote", and Microsoft has a lot of privacy control options. I also bought a cheap oNN Google TV dongle to play with. It runs Android, so there a lots of hacking possibilities.
- hedora 2y agoXbox is almost certainly going to be worse than apple for privacy. (Android is worse for sure.) The AppleTV seems to reduce the telemetry crap to “stuff the streaming platforms do in-app” (e.g. prime video can target ads based on amazon purchases made on other devices). Maybe MS does that for Xbox? They certainly do not for win11. If you want to do better than that, then the options are either piracy, or buy shiny disks and rip them. Linux is fine for both those paths, since they both involve stripping DRM. Arguably, the box I pointed you at is better for gaming than the xbox (thanks to steam), but it costs more. I mostly use it for gaming and the appletv for media, fwiw.
- TheBozzCL 2y agoThe next time I buy a TV, I'm building a Faraday cage around it.
- emchammer 2y agoOffline use is also supported, please drink a verification can.
- olyjohn 2y agoHow far will people let this go just to save a few bucks on a big TV? I'd just rather not have a TV at all. I imagine the next thing will be webcams that analyze your expressions to get your true emotional reaction to everything. People will still be fine with this if they can get a 75 inch TV for $150.
- mystified5016 2y agoTry finding a non-smart TV these days.
- 20after4 2y agoDon't buy a TV, get a monitor instead.
- hedora 2y agoMonitor panels are much worse for TV use, as are dumb tv’s.
- 20after4 1y agoHow so? Mostly they use the same panels with slightly different electronics driving them. If anything I've found that monitors have much better image quality and my large screen LG monitor has plenty of video-focused display modes and processing features to make it good for watching movies. All the smart TV features are awful and I don't miss them at all.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoTry? Buddy I’ll work for it.
- cf100clunk 2y agoBrand new non-smart HDTVs are sold under various non-retail category names, such as ''commercial'', ''hospitality'', ''signage'', etc. so if you can find vendors who supply motels, shopping centres, or restaurants near you with any of those, see if you can get one without having to go through typical retailers. There might be a chance of success.
- mrandish 2y agoHow does it do at detecting the emotion of being incredibly angry the TV I paid good money to OWN, is wasting my time, power, bandwidth, screen space and patience pushing ads I don't want at me? That emotion is so intense it should be easily detectable from orbit.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoI believe LG’s unfucked TVs are marketed as commercial TVs [1]. [1] https://www.lg.com/global/business/commercial-tv https://www.lg.com/global/business/commercial-tv
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoThere is also https://www.sharpnecdisplays.eu/p/eeme/en/launch/rp/AdvantagesOfSDMSlot.xhtml https://www.sharpnecdisplays.eu/p/eeme/en/launch/rp/Advantag...
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- kelipso 2y agoI don’t give my tv internet access and use apple tv and an hdmi cable. Works fine.
- timschmidt 2y agoDon't worry, the upcoming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPMI standard helpfully includes USB-C and Thunderbolt across the wire, which I'm sure devices won't abuse to shuttle internet traffic to each other.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoWhy wait? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HEC