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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)

submitted 10 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is the only reason I have a smart TV. I didn't want one, in fact it prompted me to make an SSID and VLAN just for it, then applied a bunch of DNS blocks. Unfortunately my old 2012 TV wasn't worth shipping across the country and the image was getting pretty dim and it had started developing dead pixels.

If you want anything above 1080p that's a dumb TV you have to go commercial like the hospitality market and they charge you way more for it. And they won't even sell it to you without a corporate account in most places.

The only way to get 4K and HDR without the smarts as a consumer is to buy a giant gaming monitor... and those too ask for quite a premium, because gamers.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried just not connecting it to the internet, and using a streaming box?

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I opted to connect it because it's the only device in the house Netflix is willing to give more than 720p. I hate DRM.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

That’s just some epic bullshit. Netflix’s tiering is just asinine.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

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[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They come with the crap built in these days.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I know. Don’t connect it to the internet, and don’t use the crap