Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because it’s not actually necessary; leave the TV isolated from the internet and use a set-top box (Apple TV, Shield, game console) as the media player.

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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I agree, I think this solution is some nonsense. I bought a “TV” and paid for all the hardware and software that went into it, but I essentially have to use it as a monitor with my own hardware to escape the enshittification.

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also agree, but I view it more as ‘I bought a TV, and that’s all I want it to be’.

      I don’t care about the built in software features foisted on me because I wanted an OLED panel; simply because they are going to be abandoned within 1-2 years, are powered by some anaemic chipset that is already multiple generations behind what is already available in my TV stand; and will likely end up as an attack vector to my network some period down the road.

      The article mentions that TV manufacturers make ~$5 a quarter from selling your data. So those ‘features’ aren’t even free, they come at the expense of your personal information, privacy and likely security as a result.

      So to quote a famous Dave Chapelle skit: “fuck ‘em, that’s why!”

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        simply because they are going to be abandoned within 1-2 years, are powered by some anaemic chipset that is already multiple generations behind what is already available in my TV stand; and will likely end up as an attack vector to my network some period down the road.

        You do realize all of that would probably cease being a problem if people were able to hack their TVs to install custom OS’s.

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    • jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kind of, I haven’t had to buy a new tv to replace my dumb tv from 2014 but my understanding is that these awful smart TVs are at least cheaper because they’re subsidised by all the ads. If that’s the case, at least you didn’t actually fully pay for the hardware and can hopefully afford to put your own on there without being out of pocket by too extreme an amount.

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not really true because even the high end top of the line Samsung QD-OLED TVs have ads on the home screen if you connect Internet. If you want the latest display technology, your only options are Smart TV with ads, or spending 10x the price for a commercial display that nobody will actually sell you.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is exactly where you were before smart TVs.

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