Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
LG’s TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking.
Glad I’ve kept mine offline all this time. Also have a PiHole that I hope would stop this shit too.
I got enough of it from Samsung.
For the amount of money I paid for these TVs, I should get a discount if you’re going to shove some ads down my throat. Especially when most of them are irrelevant to my interests.
Paid products should have ZERO ads whether relevant or not. I cancelled Amazon prime the minute they added ads into videos. Fuck that shit.
As a consequence my Amazon shopping has taken a nose dive. I used to buy shit constantly because I had free shipping now I have to really really REALLY need something and even then I’ll wait till I need at least 35$ worth to still get free shipping.
If more people stood up to enshitification we’d be much better off as consumers.
I haven’t noticed, but I did hear you can root WebOS TVs which include LGs. I may look into it if it gets intrusive. The front page is already showing ads, after all, although not nearly as awful as my fire stick was before.
Note you may want to check your versions and avoid updating in case they parch out debug or bypass functionalities. I vaguely remember concerns about that on some models.
I notice a major trend of all the largest companies majorly shooting themselves in the stock with turbo greed, even more greed than normal. I feel like we’re on the verge of a stock market slaughter.
“maximum ads”, “X basic necessity as an investment”, “price gouge everything via cartels/monopolies” and “X as a service” are the death nails of the current economic order.
“LINE MUST GO UP! LINE MUST GO UP!”
The board members chant collectively while convulsing and foaming at the mouth
It’s everything.
Watch advertising that is an annoyance to have to wait through and won’t sway your purchasing decisions in any way, or pay us more money than you would ever consider it worth it to have the no advertisement version.
Oh and we will track your every move on our service so we can work out the best way to gouge your eyes out extract the most money from you in the future.
Legit makes me want to sit down and create “advertising and data tracking free land” to live in. I guess that’s a tropical island in the Pacific.
to have the no advertisement version.
You mean, “to have the less advertising version”.
watch them download ads over ultrasound mesh networks
Step 1. Buy “smart” TV on sale
Step 2. Use the money saved to buy/build a streaming box of your own choosing
Step 3. Never ever connect the fucking TV to the internet
I’ve heard it will hop open networks to try to update. Doesn’t sound that farfetched in 2024. If you’re really concerned, you could disable the wireless adapter…
Not many people run open networks these days. I would be more worried about the things creating a mesh network to download ads from anyone who gave their TV internet access.
I’m sure some do. I don’t have any evidence either way, though. Would be very interested if someone had some hard info.
Exact reason I’m using a shield pro now with the TV disconnect from the Internet
This is one of the reasons I’ve never connected my TV to the internet and I never will. I use a mini PC running Linux with a remote and wireless keyboard. It’s much more capable than whatever is built into a TV.
We have AppleTVs on every TV in the house and none of the TVs have ever been connected to the home network. Same with the rest of the extended family.
We also have a HDHomeRun in each house for those rare occasions when we want to watch Broadcast TV.
The only time a TV changes from HDMI1 is when someone wants to play PS or XBox.
slaps back of smart tv this baby has 256MB of RAM!
tv unresponsive for 30 seconds after turning on, loading the RAM full of adware
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I really do miss old TVs. I don’t want/need a smart TV yet that’s all they sell.