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.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I don’t get why people reflexively suggest streaming boxes. A standalone Roku, Onn or FireTV is gonna spy on you just as much as any of these things. Apple TV is probably the best of a bad bunch (esp. since Nvidia enshittified the Shield TV). There’s options like running the Shield with an alternate launcher or putting a ROM on the Fire stick or running A Linux STB but none of those are particularly accessible to the non-tech set.
I guess I wasn’t meaning to recommend one over the other, I was curious what the value proposition of connecting your tv to the internet is. (The tv I have is at least ten years old and is incredibly sluggish even changing channels - I can’t imagine using the built in apps is any better. Same with our ancient Blu-ray player, just awful to use.) Or if there is no value prop and you’re forced (or nagged) to do so in order to use your tv.
I assume that any sort of streaming is offering up a surveillance buffet. I just want to limit the data as best I can.
The usability of “smart” TVs is garbage. They arne’t very powerful computers so if you are going to sacrifice privacy by using streaming, you should do it with a better streaming device. There is no reason a TV needs to connect to the internet. There is nothing that needs to be updated.
hypothetically the box doesn’t see everything else you do with the TV, but that’s a minimal reduction in footprint.
Thank you. “I refuse to send my data to my tv company! Here, Apple, you take it instead.”