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I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting
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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.
Easier from an analysis perspective, but seems a much harder way to live your life overall.
In what way?
You don't have to analyze options but you cut yourself off from many options by default. These days it's hard to find options without "smort" features so there may be a time soon when it's impossible to get some types of goods. I don't think we're there with everything yet, but its the direction society is moving.
I see. I guess I don't use some of the technology that others do, so I probably don't have this problem to the same extent others would.
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?
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.