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The solution for smart TVs is to not connect it to the Internet and attach an Apple TV. Sure they’ve gotten expensive, but how much is your privacy worth?
by pico303 29d ago
The solution for smart TVs is to not connect it to the Internet and attach an Apple TV. Sure they’ve gotten expensive, but how much is your privacy worth?
- KerrAvon 29d ago100%. LGs work perfectly well in this role.
- xbar 29d agoYup. Samsung & Sonys too. Dumb mode, no internet, Apple TV. Doesn't solve the malware on Windows PCs installed by LG monitors problem. My only solution to that remains to not buy Lucky Goldstar ever since their 14" 640x480 VGA monitor died inside of warranty but they refused to fix it.
- Larrikin 29d agoShield TV using Android means you can install any apps on it you want. I would never want to go back to watching YouTube without Sponsor block
- switchbak 29d agoThe Shield sucks too, unless you go super nerd and fix all its problems. They treat your home screen like a billboard, and I have no faith that they're not stealing all my data either.
- Larrikin 29d agoAndroid lets you put on your own launcher. There are many options to choose from in the store and online. It is one the main selling point of Android, you have options and aren't limited to their marketplace.
- switchbak 28d agoThat’s what I meant by go all super nerd. I don’t want to fight with: my phone, my car, my router, my desktop/laptop, dishwasher, home automation system - just to pull out the surveillance and adware they’ve jammed in there. Life is too short for all that, and I’ve wasted enough time on that as is. Literally just now it went jamming some Ford 150 ad on me, auto repeating. On the f’ing Home Screen!! I don’t know what I’ll replace it with, but it sure AF won’t be some corporate owned ad riddled POS like this.
- jqpabc123 29d agoWhat makes you think Apple TV won't sell your data just like the TV manufacturer's do? Would you know if they did?
- walrus01 29d agoOr attach an xbox or playstation and use the youtube, netflix etc clients on that. Both MS and Sony have a very strong interest in not letting their operating systems become host to virus/worm/trojan categories of software, as it would be a risk of game/content piracy. Yeah, you'll get ads for MS or Sony products and games on the home screen. But I have a thousand times more confidence that MS will keep the signed, auto-distributed periodic xbox series x operating system updates 'secure' than I do that some random smart tv manufacturer will implement a proper operating system.
- batch12 29d agoI took an old HP all in one, installed a linux distro, put kodi on it with some custom applications and now I have a smart TV that I control.
- beloch 29d agoWhat if you want to hook a gaming PC up to a smart TV? Linux has come far in recent years, but Windows is still the most broadly supported gaming OS. Once awareness of this side-loaded crapware gets out, I'd expect the community to come up with fixes to ensure it doesn't get loaded. In the meantime, this should blow up in the faces of MS, LG, etc. just like things blew up for Sony when they put root-kits on CD's.
- stalfosknight 29d agoThis is the correct solution. It's a much nicer user experience too.
- kulahan 29d agoBut the stuff I want to watch isn't on Apple TV. I don't need another way to pay someone for entertainment.
- mingus88 29d agoAll the streaming apps are on the appleTV. Even plex/jellyfin/emby Unless you are trying to pass through lossless audio the AppleTV 4k is one of the best streamers you can buy right now
- kulahan 29d agoDoes it play ad-free youtube? I see now that looking at their apple TV doesn't mention much about other products being available, but the app, which I guess is not the same thing, says something about it. Chromecasts seem to at least have reduced ads, but I'd do almost anything to be able to stream youtube (or ideally any webpage) to an arbitrary screen with functional adblocking.
- abetancort 28d ago[dead]
- mingus88 27d agoIf there’s an ad free YouTube app on the App Store, that’s your bet. It’s still a walled garden. Personally I don’t watch enough YouTube to bother with that. I pretty much just close the app if they force me to watch more than 5s of an ad. Most of my watching is plex and appleTV. The appleTV device has a better privacy policy than most and zero ads on the launcher
- bigstrat2003 29d agoThe article addresses that. This is about the recent controversy where plugging an LG display into a Windows machine caused unwanted software to be installed as a "driver update". Disconnecting the TV from the Internet is completely irrelevant to the article.
- amelius 29d agoWait, the solution is to attach a device that is ultimately controlled by a bunch of shareholders?
- throwawayffffas 29d agoUsing apples ad/malware bullshit device is somehow better than Samsungs? I don't thinks so.
- Markoff 28d agowhat privacy? my smart TV/Android TV stick both don't have camera/mic and only thing I use them for is watching Youtube through Smarttube with dummy account signed in and to watch freely available IPTV streams you can find online, only reason I use the Android TV stick is because the TV OS was not updated at all, slow and didn't even allow to install anything with basic Android system apps removed
- m463 27d agoApple products may be less compromised, but generally apple has one big anti-consumer hole - any app can talk to the internet unfettered.