Apple TV’s launcher was recently “updated” to showcase whatever latest content is being pushed through Apple’s own services. Which is advertisement.
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lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a popular answer, but Apple TV is the best out of the box experience. Zero ads, massive longevity. Mine is like 7 years old and still running the latest tvOS.
If you have the cash and inclination, Nvidia Shield is the hackers choice. Zero hardware upgrades in years tho, but software aplenty.
Just don’t let your smart TV access the internet in any situation, there’s no need. It’s just a stupid display.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
What ”launcher”? The TV app? You can just move it away. There is no launcher anywhere, every service along with AppleTV+ is just a separate application
klankin@piefed.ca 21 hours ago
Are apple TVs not phoning home?
If anything I’d imagine they’re one of the hardest companies to block, considering most apple users have a thousand idevices that could smuggle messages, even with all communications turned off.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Not at this scale. Remember that Apple is a hardware company first. They make money from hardware and app stores.
Google is the worlds largest ad company who dabble in hardware and services to increase their ad revenue.
klankin@piefed.ca 19 hours ago
They’re still a public company, and Im sure the heat is on their C suite cause they haven’t had any successful hardware releases since the M series processor was first released.
Not selling “anonymous” data would look to shareholders as thrown away profit, which they’re even able to sue for.
So I’d be insanely surprised if they weren’t surveiling their users - but unlike google and all, they own their entire closed-source software and hardware empire, so the likelihood of catching them is also valuably low.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Just to check, would Apple’s commitment to DEI policies look as thrown-away profit to shareholders?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And Google spyware is all open source?
Drun@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
“Find My” network is pretty strict by its nature. Realistically speaking, I wouldn’t be scared of it, because I can’t see any vector from which it can be dangerous to the end user.
Nonetheless, “Find My” is an optional feature and can be fully disabled. Other Apple web-services can be blocked on a network level, if you want it for some reason. But, IMO, at this paranoia level, the only right option is OSS with a strict firewall.
one_old_coder@piefed.social@piefed.social 20 hours ago
The launcher is a massive ad for Apple’s services though.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
What? There’s one icon that says “TV”. You can move it to the bottom and you won’t see any apple stuff beyond that.