"Publishes with the most proxy flagged apps" 1. Desoline (based in Netanya (Israel) 2. Bright Data (based in Israel) Interesting.
A country known for plenty of spyware and iOS hacking tools. Interesting indeed. (I didn’t draw any conclusions.)
I did. Israel is with North Korea at the bottom of the list of countries I'd do business with.
In fact, it's worse: my problem with NK is with its leadership, as I don't have anything against its citizens. I can't say the same for the state of Israel. May they reap what they've sown.
I'll get on my high horse and say you can get solid "DID/Commercial" TVs for not that much more: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1788343-REG/samsung_q... I got this a few months ago -- 4k, solid brightness, and ok color. Is it the OMG BEST? no. But I Disabled wifi, and even the channel display. I use it with an apple TV with CEC on the TV -- I turn on the apple tv, TV turns on straight to apple interface. I tu…
Some TCL TVs will refuse to work unless you connect them to a network with access to the home base. Fortunately, my Samsung S95D doesn't (lovely matte OLED screen), and is perfectly usable without a network connection or even setting up the Smart TV features. The only controls I need on it are volume and HDMI input switching. Like you, I use two AppleTV 4Ks as sources, one tied to my US Apple ID, one for the UK one. At some point, I will also connect my Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-Ray player, but I haven't needed to in the 2 years since I moved to the new house.
If you do this, connect it to the internet at least once, because most smart TVs ship with missing features that aren't activated until you do a firmware update.
Were I an enterprising enshittificator, I would certainly make sure to force being online as a prerequisite for basic functionality for any TV that has ever been seen online since that proves that it's capable of connecting. So.. be careful upgrading the shitware, you might get more functionality that you've bargained for. Functionality that you can't downgrade because you don't own the TV.
Some TCL TVs will refuse to work if you don't connect them to the Internet. I'd never buy one in the first place, and if I did, I'd return it immediately as defective. Eventually retailers will get the message and stop carrying the despicable brand.
I'll get on my high horse and say you can get solid "DID/Commercial" TVs for not that much more: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1788343-REG/samsung_q... I got this a few months ago -- 4k, solid brightness, and ok color. Is it the OMG BEST? no. But I Disabled wifi, and even the channel display. I use it with an apple TV with CEC on the TV -- I turn on the apple tv, TV turns on straight to apple interface. I tu…
What's the current OLED recommendation today?
I'd recommend a Samsung S95. Great matte OLED screen, the TV works just fine even if you never set up the not-so-smart features.
> And you get upset when you see ads, don't you? Yes and no. I understand that Youtube needs to generate revenue, has staff to pay, etc. About a decade ago, I got an occasional 10 second commercial at the start of a clip, and I could live with that. But Youtube pushed me too far when it started playing two consecutive commercials at regular intervals that cannot be skipped, and I now use uBlock or VacuumTube on all m…
I solved that by paying for premium.
Don't worry in future you will be paying premium and will also be forced to watch ads. Netflix started with no ads, now we need to pay to watch ads...
I cannot think of a legitimate purpose for residential proxies existing. They take advantage of people who don't understand what they're being asked to give "consent" to, and then offer up those people's internet connections to whatever actor wants to abuse it, including malware authors, aggressive scrapers, and anyone with ill intent. Why do you think this rampant abuse is a good thing? What benefit does this provid…
Things don't become illegal just because you can't think of a "legitimate purpose"
I cannot think of a legitimate purpose for residential proxies existing. They take advantage of people who don't understand what they're being asked to give "consent" to, and then offer up those people's internet connections to whatever actor wants to abuse it, including malware authors, aggressive scrapers, and anyone with ill intent. Why do you think this rampant abuse is a good thing? What benefit does this provid…
Also these proxies are against the terms of service of every ISP.
so are bittorrent, nginx, and tor - nobody actually cares. In some countries it's illegal to install nmap.
A country known for plenty of spyware and iOS hacking tools. Interesting indeed. (I didn’t draw any conclusions.)
I did. Israel is with North Korea at the bottom of the list of countries I'd do business with. In fact, it's worse: my problem with NK is with its leadership, as I don't have anything against its citizens. I can't say the same for the state of Israel. May they reap what they've sown.
Aside from your par-for-the-course extremists, I’m sure plenty of Israel’s citizens are decent, good people. Same as everywhere else.
If you remove the unbelievably criminal leadership of Israel, you’re left with a perfectly reasonable country. Same with North Korea.