Comment on How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Post-purchase monetization (viewing and traffic analysis that your “smart tv” phones home about, and that the company who makes your tv sells to advertisers for analytical and targeting purposes).
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Mine has never been connected to the internet.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s great but if you have a lower end one (and maybe higher end - not sure what they’re doing recently tbh), it may try to sniff out unsecured or public access SSIDs to connect without your knowledge or consent and transmit metrics and metadata anyways.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We use a Linux media computer for all our watching, the TV is used as nothing more than a simple monitor. So if our TV does that, jokes on them, because all the metrics they can get is when we turn it on and off and that we watch through HDMI at the TV max resolution. 🤣🤣🤣
I stopped watching traditional TV 25 years ago, 2nd best decision I ever made, after marrying my wife. 😀
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Same here, friend! Same here!
We use a Linux minicomputer as the driver.
On not watching TV: I stopped around 22 years ago. It feels so good.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
There would be nothing for one to connect to out here. There’s no WiFi except mine and no cell service unless you go outside.
I would probably desolder the antenna if I was in the city though.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 day ago
If this is a concern, connecting to a decoy SSID that isn’t actually connected to the internet may be the play.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If the device (TV) in question is doing sketchy things like sniffing for open wireless networks, I don’t think pointing it manually at a zero-access WAP stub is going to stop it - it’ll probably just dump that connection and look for another one that works.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Testing the connectivity of your connection is trivial, and the system could easily try to find another of you had no access.