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An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Alphane_Moon to c/technology
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[–] Alphane_Moon 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff and so won’t the premium televisions.

I have a feeling premium TVs won't escape adware/spyware either. They can get their margin on the hardware and earn some more money on spyware; I don't see what incentive they have to not do both. I hope I am wrong though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You’re not wrong, there are a number of videos from Louis Rossman (right to repair advocate) on YouTube lambasting LG for doing this very thing on their high-end G-series OLED TVs; including defaulting to opt-in to marketing and providing PIR data after an automatic update.