My TV doesn't know my router's wi-fi password.
Hope you don't have any open WiFi networks nearby. IMO it's better to put it on one of your networks and isolate it from the internet and other devices.
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
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Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
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Grey market residential proxy service providers are one of the most common methods of implementing bot spam, social media manipulation and plenty of straight-out fraud. There's all kinds of things that malicious actors want to do where they value coming from an ordinary (comcast, charter, centurylink, shaw cable, whatever) residential IP.
Just because others abuse privacy doesn't mean that we should remove privacy from everyone else. They also let you get around geoblocking.
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How important is "the best" OLED vs the second best or 100th best OLED? I am personally ok not buying the bleeding edge to not get malware onto my OS.
reasonably important, if you're never connecting your lg tv to any network, and just connecting it to an AppleTV or something and letting HDMI-CEC control it so you never even see their OS.
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I haven’t looked recently but last I checked Samsung made the best panels. Has that changed recently?
Samsung scored highest on https://www.rtings.com/ for my criteria, and I'm happy with the purchase. I didn't connect it to the network, of course. (I had to stop my handyman from connecting it and he seemed to think I was crazy for insisting.)
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I haven’t looked recently but last I checked Samsung made the best panels. Has that changed recently?
Their panels are often over-saturated with that fake HDR like look, similar to their phones.
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#87I'm very worried with all this bullshit around TVs. I've been running the same Samsung UE40C6530 since 2010. It's 16 f'ng years and the thing works flawlessly like the first day. No other electronic device in my life worked so well, during so long. But I'm about to move to a new home, and it feels like it's about time to get something more modern, at least a 4k TV. But I'm honestly totally lost at what to buy. I do n…
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#88Is there a (technical) difference between a residential proxy and bot network node?
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#89Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
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My TV thinks it's January 1st 1970.
Every time anything asks for a DOB or anything like that, I enter the earliest date their system allows. Been doing it for decades. I guess that might make me more trackable?