Re:Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” fe...
by gnicholas on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:35PM
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If I faced this dilemma, I’d just turn on my phone’s hotspot, give the credentials to the TV, then turn off the hotspot after it’s updated.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” fe...
by somehnacct3757 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @07:35PM
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It's not so much the connection that's the problem.
You might have to agree to a ToS when you first connect to internet. Who knows what privacy you give away signing that.
The update might be a trojan horse containing both the bugfix you need and a new mandatory streaming service tile on the home screen.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” fe...
by gnicholas on Sunday June 12, 2022 @06:03PM
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As a practical matter, I'm not especially concerned about ToS updates since my TVs are never online. The only way to exfiltrate data is to log it all and then upload as a chunk when I next do an update, or to log into a public wifi network and send data that way. But the former is not likely, and if they can do the latter I'm already defeated.
I also don't care about tiles on the home screen, because I literally never see the home screen. I always have a device plugged in (and have never connected a TV to the internet for software or other updates, thankfully).