7mo ago

New Google TV update will track your movement

www.pocket-lint.com /google-tv-presence-detection-and-gemini/

Imagine walking into your living room and your TV automatically telling you the weather and your calendar for the day. If this is a future you can imagine, you'll be pleased to hear that Google is working on a new mode for Google TV that does just that.

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7mo ago

New Google TV update will track your movement

www.pocket-lint.com /google-tv-presence-detection-and-gemini/

24 comments

I'd prefer to imagine a world in which a multi-billion dollar corporation isn't tracking my every step to sell me more shit, and yet here we are...
Drink Verification Can.
- Say McDonalds to continue
I continue to look for dumb tvs, but there are precious few. They're either small, or big outdoor monitors. I want an awesome screen TV that's dumb as dirt.
- Every TV is a dumb TV it isn't connected to internet.
  
  They all have annoyances when you don't do what they want. I want a TV that doesn't want anything.
  
  Pretty sure roku ones don't allow to be used until you accept their terms online
- my LG oled works really well as a dumb TV with it disconnected from the Internet
lol, Google is an advertising company, this will be a nightmare “feature”.
- ad will complete once presence is detected
  
  I would gladly factory reset my television and run off osmc or something if that becomes the norm.
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I can do this already, all locally, with home assistant. Thanks anyway.
- I did it all with a Pi powered magicmirror² which I prefer since it's my bathroom mirror anyway.
- Right, I'm ok with the TV (or local assistant) knowing I'm in the room. But why does personal convenience have to become the panopticon, tech bros?
  
  because they only make some money selling you convenience and they can make all the money by putting you in a panopticon.
No it will fucking not dumpster
Fortunately, Google TV is fairly easy to lock down and has permission management similar to android (because its just android with a custom launcher)
- system apps have whatever permissions they want, and you can't remove them. so much for easy permission management, when the adversary is the manufacturer
No. I dont want that. Look for something that I actually want and try not to add it to the Google graveyard.
I thought this was The Onion for a second xD

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