Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Don’t give your TV the wifi password, kids. No, you don’t need to ‘finish setting up’ your TV; it works just fine as a dumb display.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Next time I have to get a new TV I think I’ll just get a large computer monitor and stream content via an old mini PC with Linux installed on it. Not an ideal solution, but I’m so tired of this invasive bullshit. At least that will cut out some of its vectors.
After the recent Roku TOS fiasco I’m done with them. If manufacturers won’t give us a viable situation we will make one ourselves.
Anyone know a good OS setup for reduced ad streaming? I know about Pi-Holes, but I’m talking about a way of actually streaming content (in addition to blocking ads at our near the router level).
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A way more than enough Mini PC for streaming content costs about $140 nowadays.
It’s a direction I went into recently and was amazingly surprised how cheap it all is.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I use my PS5, TBH. I still get ads on Amazon Prime, but I’m not seeing Netflix ads. (I also don’t have Hulu, etc.) I pay for a VPN for my desktop–I’m using Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC–and with Firefox and uBlockOrigin I see pretty minimal ads online; if you’re able to open your streaming service in a browser rather than needing to download their application, then a VPN an uBlockOrigin might be sufficient.