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Re:Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the compan... by OrwellianChild on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:16PM (#20206866)
"Dumb" TVs cost much more than these smart TVs cost, since they are able to amortize the benefit from all their tracking/ads and price the hardware competitively. Its a razor/blades model, only someone else is buying the blades...

That said, the easiest way to make a smart TV into a dumb one is to connect it to your local internet through a Pi-Hole or other gateway, and then block everything but the Netflix/Amazon domains needed to stream content. If the Smart TV can't phone home, it can't leak data.

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Re:Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the compan... by SomeOldThrow on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:51PM (#20207731)
I’m less concerned with putting it in a condom than I am the notably degraded functionality of the core tv.
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