2023-09-11 08:33 UTC
@burgerdrome@aus.social maybe try free to air? My 10+ year old 27” Samsung Tv still going great and doesn’t spy on me because it can’t.
(Funny story, when the antenna distribution system in our apartment block died recently, we were the only ones to complain. We already knew we were the weird old couple in the building but that proved it decisively 🤪 We tried using The Internet while it was off but the experience was too awful, much as you describe in fact.)
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@unfnknblvbl@aus.social 2023-09-11 10:52
@dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org @burgerdrome@aus.social watching FTA doesn't stop a smart TV from doing all that bullshit stuff. The only way is to completely block its network access. And then you lose Netflix et al unless you have a set top box of some description... ...which is just as susceptible to enshittification :(
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@Wowwoweowza@mastodon.social 2023-09-11 14:32
@dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org @burgerdrome@aus.social -- I read OP post with interest because I hate that all consumers are being sold all the time, but like you, my twelve year old Samsung is going strong and I am spared a bunch of bologna. We use an X-Box to access our apps. Sometimes an X-Box 360.