They've also been caught pants down capturing images of people's usage and sending to homebase.
Have a link? I'd be interested to read about this. Found only a result about voice stuff.
If the TVs were kept offline one could just use them like 'dumb' displays but I suppose the draw is to have fewer superfluous devices and have the TV handle such connections.
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Not to be 'that guy' but I haven't owned a tv since like 2010, they are pretty pointless now.
Not to be 'that guy' but I haven't owned a tv since like 2010, they are pretty pointless now.I know several people who have been without TV for longer.
This was changed into a tax this year ... So instead of getting the technical solution right, we all get to pay. :rolleyes:
Not to be 'that guy' but I haven't owned a tv since like 2010, they are pretty pointless now.I know several people who have been without TV for longer.
One guy does have a "movie-room" though, and I think he watches Netflix in it.
Another once hit it off with the singer of a classic famous band at a party -- and had no idea who he was because he had never seen any music videos (or any other TV) while growing up.
I live in a country with a tradition of "public service TV", so we used to have to pay an annual license fee for owning a TV receiver (a VCR or cable box counted even if not hooked up to anything).
This was changed into a tax this year ... because people had been "cutting the cord"...
The public service TV had been available on the Internet but only protected by a IP-address based region-lock, not by a login linked to the license. So instead of getting the technical solution right, we all get to pay. :rolleyes:
With that in mind, all of this is done all over the internet and is only new to the TV world. If you are a user of the internet, you're already being tracked to much greater detail than this... so I'd say: if you 'trust' the internet enough to use it, then I'd not worry about your TV.
If we look at the samsungs, they even have a special reset function for anti-virus.
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[Data collection for advertising targeting purposes] is something you agree to when you unbox the TV and set it up.It could be very convenient to bend truth and sense to suit your own commercial purposes.
if you 'trust' the internet enough to use it, then I'd not worry about your TV.Oh, I don't trust the Internet for one bit either. Which is why I, like most people who are in the know, use privacy plugins, ad-blockers and whatnot to evade the trackers on our computers.
With that in mind, all of this is done all over the internet and is only new to the TV world. If you are a user of the internet, you're already being tracked to much greater detail than this... so I'd say: if you 'trust' the internet enough to use it, then I'd not worry about your TV.
Visionaire is clearly an old pro at seducing the community.. :D
I've read that it's been a primary marketing tactic to start paragraphs with Grains of Truth to Lull the reader into a sense of security/ belief. Then in the conclusion tell them it's ok, that it happens to everyone, there's nothing they can do, so they should accept it.
Kind of like how experienced photographers always manage to get unsuspecting subjects to wear less clothing.. But everyone does it.. you want the job and the call back no ? hahahahaha
Visionaire, Do you know if they use -Secret- Bluetooth/ wifi to phone home the data, such that we need to go in and cut out the transimitters ?
I WOULD cover my tv in grounded tin foil, but then I wouldn't be able to see it.