Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

• deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If they allow you to do that without any loss in functionality.

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It takes some research if youve never done anything like it before, but you can drip feed it the internet via a pihole, and starve it specifically of ads and data collection. Keep the functionality, kill the leech.

    Google smart tv pihole, theres a few guides, for anyone interested.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But why? It doesn’t need that for anything. Just plug an old computer in via HDMI and bookmark movie-web.app or download/stream stuff from anywhere. Much better quality, interface, and no jank.

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just depends on what you need it for, and what youre trying to plug into it.

        For example, some people dont have spare computers to turn into a mini server, but do have $60 and the time to fiddle with a raspberry pi.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Curious, what functionality would I lose? All it needs to do is turn on and display video through an HDMI port.

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    • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Samsung historically has had a habit of poaching features from their Smart TVs as they age, eventually leaving you with a not so smart TV after a decade or so. Not sure if other manufacturers do the same

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      • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What a realistic approach! A thing getting dumber as it ages, what a great idea!

        /s

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Aha! Yeah that’s okay with me, since we just disable their internet hook computers up, to use them as dumb monitors.

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