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Re: Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

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To be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious payload in....

> To be fair, everything is Chinese made Yes. Chinese manufacturing is quite a phenomenon, useful and everywhere But to be completely fair, a $40 video projector has a warning label. The price

You can put a bigger price tag over it. It won't be any better.

Re: Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

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It might damage Google's reputation with advertisers in the long term. I'm not convinced Google would even care about it, given their other behavior.

Proctor & Gamble did an experiment: they cancelled all of their online advertising and watched their sales numbers. Sales didn't change. That sort of thing is downstream of this sort of thing. Online advertising is a money black hole, a sacrifice to the gods. It doesn't really do anything.

Except annoys people who do see the ads and wastes bandwidth.

Re: Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

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> they probably remember shows being free from over the air antennas you are aware broadcast TV never ended?

An awful, awful, awful lot of consumers think their old antennas don't work now that everything's gone digital. And they've simply never tried.

Well, analog broadcasts did stop in Finland some 15-20 years ago. DVB-T stopped a few years ago. Only T2 receives anything these days AFAIK. Physical antennas are the same, though. (And C if you have cable.)

Re: Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

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We are literally new and only available in Barcelona at the moment which I mentioned in my comment as well. Not sure what's eww about that?

The "eww" part is that normally, anytime you see "talk to us for a price", that means someone is charging an absurdly high amount for the good or service.

Or it's a scam where there's no product and no price and the "seller" is just fishing for contacts (or marks).

Re: Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

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Its the grandmas still sending you a $5 check in the mail for your birthday

How can those few people - and again narrowed down to the population mailing letters AND needing stamps AND seeking discounts AND willing or ignorant enough to do/risk fraud - with that little revenue per item, make a half-price stamp operation worthwhile?

The Venn diagram of old people with limited mobility (can't just drive to the post office or grocery store) and on a fixed income (they crave those discounts) is nearly a perfect circle of the people that fall for internet scams (fails to understand that literally anyone can make a shopify store and accept card payments).
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