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Comment on How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter

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.

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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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. 😀

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- nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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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.

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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.

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- 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.
  
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  - EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    So what would you suggest as a countermeasures? In theory rendering the on-board wifi inoperable would work, but this requires an actual alteration to the device and some technical knowledge on how to do so without damaging the TV itself.
    
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- 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.
  
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  - EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Has there been any evidence of internet-enabled TVs actually doing this, or is it speculative?
    
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