Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.

Smart TVs with an internet connection: Lets grab screenshots and send them to cooperate analysis advertisement department.

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
    65·
    20 hours ago

    I basically just assume that anything which is closed-source, networked and has sensors of any kind is a spying device. It’s easier than evaluating each one individually.

      • InterestedSkeptic@programming.dev
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Eh. Its an upfront decision that’s pretty easy to figure out if a TV or something has it. A TV being an extreme case where you know for near certain it has it even. Its about as hard as looking for anything else you care about in a product in most anything else this might be a concern with - I can quickly see if a TV is a smart TV or not.

        Disclaimer: I am aware that the TV market specifically is kiiinda weird with their dedicated TV remote button deals that let them sell TV units at a loss (to then be remade by these deals). I still feel this is not much harder a way to live life… I mean, what, I’m gonna spend an extra 20 minutes looking for a TV?

        • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 hours ago

          You have a different tv market but I don’t think it’s even possible to buy a dumb tv from a store anymore. I was able to get one pre-covid, I haven’t been able to find one since then.