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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by lyx0 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:58PM (#28291611)
Same here, I bought a Samsung TV around 5-6 years ago and a year ago it started to show me ads all of a sudden in that 'Media Bar' (I have no idea what's it called, where you select the apps you want to use). A day later I factory reset it and gave it no access to the internet anymore and only stream to it from my PlayStation.

This made me swear off Samsung forever. Don't mess with my stuff I bought years ago.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by rezic on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:51AM (#28299042)
Make sure your HDMI cable doesn't support ethernet... I've seen people comment about their TVs updating through HDMI when connected to peripherals like consoles.
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