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you will live to see enshittification beyond your comprehension
Just get a TV that isn’t shitty. People act like it’s a clockwork orange and you’re forced to watch ads.
Every single inkjet printer is trash because they all adopted the same tactics.
All the TV makers went to selling your advertising data. What makes you think they won’t all do this?
you will live to see enshittification beyond your comprehension
Just get a TV that isn’t shitty. People act like it’s a clockwork orange and you’re forced to watch ads.
Google, Tizen, and WebOS are the major TV players, with Roku also somewhere in the mix.
All three of these companies do some level of surveillance, and yet they, or another proprietary device, are often required to watch streaming services.
You can argue that streaming services are unnecessary, but that means both spending a lot of time and money on physical media, or simply missing out, as many shows are now only showing on streaming, and not broadcast anymore.
I don't get this bombardment with ads anymore. For all the talk of targeted ads I routinely get them for products like tampons which I definitely do not need. Most of the time it's some noise I hear until I can press the skip button. I can't really remember what's the last time I bought something I saw on an ad.
If ads are cheap and margins for your product are high, you don't care if your ad bounces off of 1,000 people as long as it turns 1 into a paying customer.
I don't get this bombardment with ads anymore. For all the talk of targeted ads I routinely get them for products like tampons which I definitely do not need. Most of the time it's some noise I hear until I can press the skip button. I can't really remember what's the last time I bought something I saw on an ad.
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Just get a TV that isn’t shitty. People act like it’s a clockwork orange and you’re forced to watch ads.
And when they all do it, then what? Every single inkjet printer is trash because they all adopted the same tactics. All the TV makers went to selling your advertising data. What makes you think they won’t all do this?
That’s my backup plan at least.
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Just get a TV that isn’t shitty. People act like it’s a clockwork orange and you’re forced to watch ads.
It's really not that simple. Google, Tizen, and WebOS are the major TV players, with Roku also somewhere in the mix. All three of these companies do some level of surveillance, and yet they, or another proprietary device, are often required to watch streaming services. You can argue that streaming services are unnecessary, but that means both spending a lot of time and money on physical media, or simply missing out,…
It doesn’t even have to provide a combined search list. Just something to act as the base OS and launcher for each platform. I know what I want to watch and presumably which one provides it. I just want something to attach to my dumb TV that can play the video.
No suggestions. No promoted content. No ads. No upsell.
Does such a thing exist?
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Just get a TV that isn’t shitty. People act like it’s a clockwork orange and you’re forced to watch ads.
And when they all do it, then what? Every single inkjet printer is trash because they all adopted the same tactics. All the TV makers went to selling your advertising data. What makes you think they won’t all do this?
Edit: I'm a big fan of the Cooler Master GP27Q and GP27U. They both have eye-bleedingly gorgeous HDR and won't break the bank. You can get the Q for about $550 and the U for under $900; the difference is that the Q is 1440p and the U is 4K.
The only criticism I have at all with them is that the firmware is kinda fucky (you will be spending your first few days with it constantly messing with settings, I guarantee) and doing computer stuff can be aggravating with FALD active; for example, I can scroll through a reddit post and watch the background color change between white and various shades of gray as I scroll, depending on the density of the text. But this is a complete non-issue if you're buying it as a TV replacement, and even if you are using it as a regular computer monitor, you get used to it real fast (and you can always turn off FALD when you're not watching something).
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It's really not that simple. Google, Tizen, and WebOS are the major TV players, with Roku also somewhere in the mix. All three of these companies do some level of surveillance, and yet they, or another proprietary device, are often required to watch streaming services. You can argue that streaming services are unnecessary, but that means both spending a lot of time and money on physical media, or simply missing out,…
The answer is to buy a computer monitor and just watch on your PC.