LG is rolling out a new terms of use and privacy policy agreement. Looking pretty ugly over here with my "Smart TV". What can I do?
LG is rolling out a new terms of use and privacy policy agreement. Looking pretty ugly over here with my "Smart TV". What can I do?
It seems to be related to some advertising push from a partner named Alfonso that is gathering information cross-platform anything that appears on your screen and pushing advertising to you during playback.
Hopefully not, but that's what it looks like from early reading.
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My LG TV is not connected to the internet.
Very smart. Do you live alone? My family is down with the sickness.
The TV is essentially used as a dumb monitor and has an Apple TV and Chromecast plugged into it.
I've got a Fire in the back of mine which I want everyone to use, but everyone just uses the LG interface except me.
Of course it screws up all the time, and when it does my first question is, "Hey did you try what you're doing on the Fire plugged into the back to see if it worked on that?"
Not like I love the fire either, but pick your poison, right? Apple, Amazon, Google, LG. Which large tech company would you like to milk your information?
Sounds like it's time to block the TV from the network and just play dumb lol
I have an old laptop running LibreELEC (literally) strapped to the back of my TV. With a PC connected remote it works great.
That's the way we do it, Dave! Making fire with sticks!
does the fire stick have the ability to wake the tv up? in that case, just hide the TV remote.
That's precisely how we use it.
Lol, that makes it better?
Yes from a hardware and user experience perspective, and a more pessimistic maybe/not really from a privacy perspective. I think smart TVs are a little more aggressive with their anti user changes because they see it as a captive audience. They market the hardware specs, then add ads to the UI. Streaming sticks really only have their user interface and user experience to market, so they're a little less aggressive with the negative changes.
yes
So replacing one spying device with another is better?
yes
That's a pretty stupid take.
There are good reasons for it that you're not grasping, but I'm pretty sure your behavior in your responses in this thread is why no one is bother to try to interact with you and explain them. I know its why I'm not bothering to explain them to you at least. I hope you get the streaming device experience you desire.
Time for a Pi-Hole or similar if you don’t already have one.