Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  then you get unwanted chinese tech.

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  • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would have to phone home over the great firewall, which is the point

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uhh they let that sort of information in no problem. The firewall is more for random citizens not corporate servers.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But it would still phone home though? It’s not like great firewall blocks all traffic, it blocks traffic the CCP doesn’t like.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know people who watch Chinese dramas on those Chinese streaming apps here in Europe. The great firewall doesn’t block everything. And it’s mostly for outgoing traffic. Like people in China can’t get on Facebook, but people outside of China can get on WeChat, though making an account outside of China is impossible.

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      • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        but people outside of China can get on WeChat, though making an account outside of China is impossible.

        No it isn’t, I’ve done so.

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From a European perspective, at this stage I think I’d prefer the Chinese tech over the American.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. The way things ate going, at some point it may become less harmful and easier to deal with unwanted Chinese tech than American. Pay much lower profit margins as a bonus.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not judging by the absolute tirefire that is tiktok.

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• real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or get a laptop or some other device so the TV has no choice but work as a simple display. We’ve come full circle

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  • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The new problem is AI running on the TV taking the images sent to it and processing those separately from everything else, and using that to see what you’re doing and watching.

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    • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you been reading? Don’t connect your tv to wifi.

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      • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’ll have to rip the networking chip out pretty soon to stop them from sniffing out and connecting to WiFi or other devices connected to the internet.

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    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So… next step is to cut it’s wifi antenna and fill the ethernet port with superglue? Tech is amazing /s

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      • SuiXi3D@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Open it up and desolder the networking chip. It's the only way to be sure. Hope you've got a heat gun!

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    • Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just use a DNS blocker ffs.

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      • flightyhobler@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sadly not a magic fix

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