There's hope for privacy yet
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Must be a good store if you stay there half the year
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"subsidized" – TVs sold perfectly well before they were flooded with ads. Ads and selling user data just mean more money for CEOs. Always more, MORE, MOOORE PROFIT!
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There are tutorials on how to block secondary DNS servers when using Pihole. (The one I followed is in German but you can probably use your translator of choice.)
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Yeah. It's locked down at the firewall level.
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Well that just made my day a little worse
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I asked the man how come and he said “Well, dumb TVs are hard to get and they sell almost immediately. So they’re worth more than the smart ones.”
He's wrong. They're cheaper because the manufacturer makes money off selling advertisements.
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I suspect the vast majority of people are buying dumb TVs because android TV sucks, not for privacy reasons. I'm willing to bet most go home and plug their Chromecast or FireTV stick right in.
So as long as android TV sucks, its good news for us.
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That's a nice thought. Thank you for sharing
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I've always wanted to ask a billionaire how much was enough, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't understand the question. Enough? What's that?
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Ask the sales rep if it works without internet, and if they're wrong, demand a refund.
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I dunno that's entirely accurate - we have a Sony Bravia android TV (working on moving away from default OS but that's another story) that is perfectly usable with Stremio and Jellyfin and doesn't have massive invasive ads. One of my parents has a dumb TV with a Chromecast and it was nothing but a PITA to use by comparison.
