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I just had a horrifying thought while wondering what these TVs will do if you just never connect them to the Internet.

I know people are worried about them jumping on your neighbor’s WiFi without prompting, or even hacking your own connection, etc…but my horrifying thought was that they could just create a new, free mesh network that only serves up ads.

You’d need a fucking faraday cage wrapped around your TV in order to not see ads.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go throw up. 🤮

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Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Look up Amazon Sidewalk. Your TV will soon get an internet connection whether you like it or not.

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- aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks I hate it
  
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Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You can tear the wifi antenna off the board, and it’ll never connect again (not just unplug it from the card, actually tear it off the pads), could also remove the shield from the Wifi module as well for good measure and it would never get a good signal ever again.

If you’re feeling really brave you could even try removing or cutting the traces connecting the Wireless module to the main system bus, has diminishing returns though since it would be very easy to short or destroy the PCI bus rendering the system completely inoperable.

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- aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass, but it wouldn’t matter. In some cases, it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.
  
  But hey, it’s not happened (yet) so this is purely speculation.
  
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  - Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass
    
    Not exactly a bypass it’s more so destruction of property (your own property might I add, since there’s no clause that says you have to return it to the company at some point)
    
    it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.
    
    Yeah we’re definitely not at the point in time yet where it is illegal to vandalize your own things, hacking in some places, but vandalism of your own property not so much (exceptions only for rentals or leases, which TVs aren’t since you never need to return them).
    
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