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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by hypertele-Xii on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:54AM (#31039144)
Until your neighbor enables an open, unprotected wifi, your smart TV connects to it and auto-updates to start showing you ads.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by kesslern on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:20AM (#31039351)
Are there any TV models that are proven/documented to do this? I hear this claim all the time but I can't find a single demo of it happening. A previous HN thread [0] couldn't come up with any examples either.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by phendrenad2 on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:01PM (#31041744)
There is ONE comment by ONE random dude on the Samsung forums. That's it.

The standards for evidence that tech people will accept continue to amaze me. (https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/timberlake/)

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by landmass on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:41AM (#31040103)
Amazon Sidewalk shares signals in a blatant misuse of my WiFi password.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by tenebrisalietum on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:36PM (#31045506)
Samsung TVs do show an interface called 'p2p0' along 'eth0' - I think this is visible in the Netflix diagnostic screen. Dunno really what it means or does.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by netsharc on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:03AM (#31039725)
Every HN discussion about smart TVs have the same points repeated again and again... "Just wait until built-in 5G modems!".
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by Cthulhu_ on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:59AM (#31039175)
A device automatically connecting to unprotected wifi is a major security issue waiting to happen.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by Sakos on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:01AM (#31039192)
When has that issue stopped any of these companies?
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by philistine on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:41AM (#31039530)
It has; we have no proof of any TV doing that. Unless we see proof, it doesn’t happen.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by Sakos on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:33AM (#31040717)
Not sure if you're serious or if this is sarcasm.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by philistine on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:24PM (#31042100)
I'm serious. No TV has been proven to automatically connect to open Wi-Fi. Not one.
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