Ive been eyeing up signage displays and 50"+ gaming monitors.
I don’t want the smart in my display, I want the smart attached to my display.
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sparkles@piefed.zip 3 days ago
My next tv (don’t have one) is just gonna be attached to a laptop by hdmi. That’s it.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Get a monitor, you don’t need a wall sized tv. I got a pair of Displayport monitors for free, and they perform admirably.
sparkles@piefed.zip 3 days ago
I think the one I have is 50 inch and I think it could be a bit smaller, yeah. A monitor might work better . I just use it for my switch and some tv shows/ambiance.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 days ago
Meet ACR
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Holy shit, I had no idea that exists. My next TV will be a monitor with no internet access.
I’m in the process of making all our media sources and tech independent, starting with my dad’s laptop. I’ve already set up easy remote access so I can always help him with anything. I am NEVER using mainstream shit from now on.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Thrift stores usually have some older dumb TVs if youre okay with 1080p, and Sceptre still makes dumb consumer-grade TVs if you are willing to shop on Amazon or at Walmart
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What i don’t get is there is clearly a market here. Why doesn’t some lesser Known TV manufacturer make a dumb TV and steal all those customers from the big ones.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even monitors are having smart TV antifeatures added. Soon you won’t be able to find a “dumb monitor” — and this is why.
maximumbird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I know it’s not a fix all
But a Pi-hole prevents a lot of this collected data from ever leaving your network to begin with.
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
If for some reason someone turns on the wifi on my LG tv (I have teenagers and their friends), I have the device itself blacklisted from the network.
But that’s not a reasonable level of granularity for a typical user. We need privacy protection laws to end this sort of behavior from manufacturers.
maximumbird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Could not possibly agree more.
These companies need to be held accountable.
There are ways to keep yourself somewhat safe for now.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Good luck getting either party to do so with the amount of corporate money thrown their way. :/ You might be able to shout at the Dems to do something but it’ll be a half measure of allowing an opt out system.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yeah, my smart TVs are the noisiest devices on my network, by far. In a day of heavy usage where I’m doomscrolling and constantly scrolling past ads, my phone may log ~2500 blocked requests. My Roku and Samsung TVs both average around 7000 blocked requests per day, even when we haven’t used them at all. That’s a request to their data-harvesting servers getting blocked every ~12 seconds.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yup. Make sure it’s not a “smart” TV with a WiFi connection. LG was one of three TV companies (Visio and Samsung were the others) that got caught spying on their TVs HDMI connection and sending usage data on connected devices back to their manufacturers through the WiFi connection.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
A wifi connection to where? Were people using unprotected networks?
NutWrench@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Vision TVs have built-in WiFi to promote their own, garbage tier streaming service. So you need to connect it to your home WiFi network to use it. But they can also monitor the TVs HDMI port.
So if you have a Roku or a DVD player connected to it, the TV can monitor what’s coming into the HDMI port and then use your WiFi connection to send that info home.
I noticed the Visio is very aggressive about you enabling the WiFi connection even if you just want to use it as a monitor. (i.e. if you disable the TVs WiFi, it will nag you to turn it back on every time you turn the TV on and not let you use the TV until you do it). I’m guessing this is deliberate because Visio values collecting the HDMI data more than their streaming service.
hayvan@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Do not connect it to your network. It cannot do spying if ot cannot connect.
AppleMist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Oh geez I just went and disconnected my TV from WiFi, I dunno why I had it connected in the first place, I use a separate box thingy for all the services. I’m getting so sick of constantly being perceived and surveilled by stuff all around me.