Re:Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing
by Kiro on Sunday March 27, 2022 @03:54PM
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I can't relate to any of this at all. My Smart TV (LG) is not slow or unresponsive. It doesn't show any ads and the picture control is easy to understand.
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Well done picking a good TV. Unfortunately even other LG TVs are doing this: https://twitter.com/chriswelch/status/1369733357756686349
Many, many smart TVs send analytic data to marketing companies. Some even send full snapshots of the screen. https://archive.ph/DWTGC
> When tracking is active, some TVs record and send out everything that crosses the pixels on your screen. It doesn’t matter whether the source is cable, an app, your DVD player or streaming box.
> Many of the TV companies say they aren’t violating our privacy, because ACR data technically isn’t “personally identifiable information.” TVs, they say, are shared by an entire household.
Don’t connect it to WiFi and update. 2020 LG CX OLED TV randomly started to play ads after update:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-...