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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Macha on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:43PM (#35485314)
No, this appears to be a HN urban legend. It's always asked in these threads and the closest thing that anyone has been able to provide is one person asking one time on the samsung forums why there tv was connected to the neighbour's wifi (openly in the TV's own menu). So either there's a giant conspiracy which literally nobody else in the world has noticed or attempted to reproduce, or her kids/neighbour/whoever just connected it to the first network that'd work.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by was_a_dev on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:46PM (#35485375)
Fair enough - I think it is most likely something I read via HN
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Macha on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:49PM (#35485428)
Yeah, HN seems to be the primary community responsible for the belief that this is commonplace.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by lostlogin on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:50PM (#35486805)
Maybe, but the shitty behaviour of big tech companies makes such things very easy to believe.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Lammy on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:47PM (#35486767)
It's possible, and that's all that matters IMO
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by fshbbdssbbgdd on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:24PM (#35487153)
If “possible” is all that matters then you have to include stuff like “I’m on a special list where if I order a monitor from Amazon, they’ll send me a version with a secret chip on the inside of the case that broadcasts my secret TV viewing habits to the NSA.”
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by lostlogin on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:49PM (#35486777)
It’s too hard on the Unifi line, but Ubiquiti Edgerouters allow some neat rules. Eg if on port 53 and not coming from the Pihole, send back to Pihole.

The Samsung was very chatty, but didn’t connect to an unsecured wifi network I had setup for testing.

It’s gone now and an equally chatty Sony is in its place - with not network access.

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