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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by capdeck on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:32AM (#24628283)
Eventually TVs will VPN out. Dat revenue is way too sweet...
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by tremon on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:51AM (#24629300)
As long as it's on my network, I can still block the VPN endpoint, or simply block based on source IP, or put the TV in a non-routable subnet.
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by clankyclanker on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:54PM (#24631538)
...Assuming it displays anything at all without being able to phone home.

Chances are good the TVs of the future will just display full screen error messages if they haven’t been able to upload your content engagement metrics in the last 15 minutes.

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