If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Devices into the Sea

Re:If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Device... by rchaud on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:28AM (#19749147)

The only time I've ever even mentioned it was when I was at a friend's house, saw he had a slick new Samsung smart TV, and relayed a news story about the microphone on the TV being 'always on' and phoning home.

It felt overly preachy to bring up this stuff if it's not related to the topic of conversation. I mean, he already spent $500 on it, an always-on mic isn't enough for him to send it back.

Me, I'm going to hold on to my "dumb" TV as long as possible. I have no reason to upgrade except for 4K, which, outside of live sports, really isn't of any interest to me. 1080p is good enough for me.

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Re:If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Device... by McDev on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:48AM (#19749358)

Also have a Samsung "Smart" TV. I banned it from the internet when it started showing me ads inside the OS. Since then it's been great, although I've had to invest (had is strong, I could have gone with a cheaper solution maybe) in an Apple TV box to get Plex/Netflix and the like.

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