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An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Alphane_Moon to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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.