What is the best dumb TV?

Re:What is the best dumb TV? by narwally on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:10PM (#24672922)

I buy smart tvs because they have ads on them, which makes the initial purchase price cheaper. Then I just connect it to my media server and never bother with the smart features.

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by chihuahua on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:25PM (#24675965)

Exactly. If you don't connect your smart TV to your home Wifi network, it can't connect to anything and exfiltrate your data. I doubt manufacturers are secretly putting LTE modems inside TVs.

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by shyn3 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:49AM (#24679444)

This is not true. It connects to open wireless and updates your software and probably ads. There was a post on here a while ago about it which I can't find from a preliminary search.

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by textman on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:20PM (#24680625)

Is this the post you refer to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21002745

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by shyn3 on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:15PM (#24692648)

Yes there is a reply that takes you a reddit comment [1]. However now it appears as though that commenter deleted their account so I don't know the validity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/bpjky4/worried_ab...

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