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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by tass on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:53PM (#16729222)
What brand of TV?
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by jghn on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:28PM (#16729398)
Samsung, from about 4 years ago I think
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by tass on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:22AM (#16808015)
I had a Samsung plasma TV about that long ago and it started to show notifications every time it turned on that some service I never used was being decommissioned.

Same experience as https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/TVs/Annoying-notificatio... but with a different notification.

I don't think I'll buy a Samsung TV again after that, and I don't connect any TV to the internet anymore.

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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by Washuu on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:33PM (#16729995)
LG does this too. I had to black hole its MAC address in my router.
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