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Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported 55-inch TVs (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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so basically you're getting a surveillance device shipped straight to your living room.

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[–] Jackthelad 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can buy good quality TVs that are maybe 2-3 years old in sales or secondhand which would be much better than this, and no need for ads.

I've seen people get an LG C1 for like $100 secondhand and there's nothing wrong with it. You don't have to spend close to or upwards of 1,000 on a TV.

[–] ritswd 1 points 1 year ago

Somebody posted another comment with the exact same idea, and I think y’all are under-estimating the amount of people who live under the poverty line (11%/~4M people in the US for instance), and the even larger amount of people who live below a living wage, and therefore all have zero buying power for consumer discretionary items, let alone having $100 to spend.