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Their high priced, medium product quality, lots of advertising is a red flag for any consumer.
If you ask your friends, they likely had terrible experiences with everything from TVs, appliances, phones, and SSDs.
Online and offline their marketing presence rivals Apple and Nintendo.
If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?
How did we go from a country that made it a crime to share video rental records to one where everything you watch is constantly monitored and monetized?
If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?
Fortunately, you can specify your own DNS to point at a black hole proxy like: https://pi-hole.net
My understanding is that newer DNS-over- like DoH would make this impossible...
Pi-hole would be able to implement a DoH server, providing similar functionality as today.
Pi-hole like solutions are not working when DNS requests are made from the application, ignoring local resolvers configuration.
How did we go from a country that made it a crime to share video rental records to one where everything you watch is constantly monitored and monetized?
Fortunately, you can specify your own DNS to point at a black hole proxy like: https://pi-hole.net
Though blocking is a little harder if you want to use built-in apps of the TV (i.e. Netflix) while blocking it from sending viewing data to Samsung or its affiliates.
Though if you really want to keep the TV from spying on you, the easiest thing to do is to just not connect it to the internet (which is still an option in these pre-5G days, not sure that will always be the case in the future, the TV may have a built-in 5G modem that it can use to talk back to the manufacturer)