There's hope for privacy yet
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Neither are all but the cheapest smart TVs.
It's called double and triple dipping. Every single company that can get away with double, triple, quadruple dipping can and does.
Buying the initial product + Subscription + selling your data + dropping support to force you to buy a new product is quite commonplace. The old mantra of "if you are not paying, you are the product" doesn't apply anymore because most companies do both.
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Often it will yell at you every day and be very intrusive, not actually disconnect from the internet and force join any old WiFi connections/any non-password protected ones, or simply refuse to work unless you connect them (I think some people were saying newer Samsung TVs do that)
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It's exactly what I got: it has the telltale PCMCIA connector on the side and a store mode in the menu.
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Simple solution: buy a smart TV and never connect it to the internet.
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This won't work if you use actual, classic TV. But I researched for a fair while and found none of the dumb TVs are cheaper than low end smart TVs. Not by a long shot. So I got a giant computer screen instead. I just connect my switch or my laptop.
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Now I'm picturing the TV sounding like Marge Simpson's sisters.
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If they can make money off you, they will.
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Yes, or "commercial TV", which should include a TV tuner built-in. For the US, here are some examples of 4K commercial TVs for under $1,000:
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I got a Sharp Android smart tv last year when my 2006 Samsung died and it works great without internet access. Cheapest one there was.
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Just an FYI that the Smart cancer has already began infecting computer monitors. It won’t be long until there are no more dumb monitors.
Samsung and LG make smart computer monitors. There are probably many others.
