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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by jcalvinowens on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:09PM (#46268646)
Lawyers who make these decisions are so risk averse in my experience they'd still probably insist on it being nonmodifiable.
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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by atq2119 on Sunday December 14, 2025 @11:40PM (#46270573)
Sure, which is why right to repair laws are so important.

I understand this discussion as being about how society should deal with it, not how you could try to make the argument internal to a company.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by jcalvinowens on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:32AM (#46276691)
Right, I'm saying I don't think codifying limitations on liability in law will be effective, because it probably wouldn't be absolute enough to satisfy the lawyers. You need a law that actually says "the user must be free to modify the device".
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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by account42 on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:02AM (#46274665)
They don't seem to be too risk averse about misusing free software though.
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