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Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

chrz wrote: post #335
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So exactly how do you suppose they sync your browsing history and bookmarks between devices if they don’t store the information? And your browsing history is e2e encrypted by keys on your device. Apple doesn’t have access to your browsing history. You can give Apple any age you want to. It’s not like it checks. And I have no idea about the other topics you are going off on and what they have to do with Apple..

why would i want to sync everything

Why would someone want to sync bookmarks, browsing history etc between their phone, their iPad and their computer?

Chrome and Firefox do the same.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #341
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #148

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Names are confusing no sarcasm intended. I meant Apple tracks what you watch when watching AppleTV+ (the streaming service) on the AppleTV box. How else are there going to mark what you watched and whdfd you are in a TV series?

So you are justifying it. For the record it's not just what you watch with the streaming service, it is everything you watch through their TV program. You still do not get it: you can find a pseudo-justification for _every_ type of tracking they do to you. But none of these are really true justifications. You can do _everything_ without any type of tracking -- even the very basic premise: it shouldn't even be true th…

AppleTV doesn’t record everything you watch on your TV like the smart TVs. A smart TV can track what you watch no matter which input source you are using.

How could an AppleTV or any device connected to an HDMI port know what you are watching on other input sources?

The AppleTV device doesn’t track what you watch at all. The AppleTV+ service knows what you watch on their service.

Their is no justification for the TV to know anything. There is obviously a reason for each service to know what you watch on their service. What exactly are you arguing? That you should be able to use the AppleTV+ service anonymously?

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

amelius wrote: post #300
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #46

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Let’s see where to start? 1. Email address - you have to use an email address to have an Apple account. How are they not going to have your email? 2. Devices registered - you mean when you log into your device, they keep track of your logged in devices! 3. Transaction history - they keep track of what you bought from them! Must I continue? Every single piece of data that you named is required to do business with them…

It should not be necessary to be tied to the vendor after you have bought the product.

What are you going to do with an iPhone without Apple? Yes you can use an Android without Google. But the percentage of people who do so outside of China is meaningless.

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Post by thfuran »

Gabrys1 wrote: post #391
gary_0 wrote: post #322

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If it had Ethernet ports I'd be tempted to just use my own wifi router and put the ISP's Trojan horse in a Faraday cage. All ISP-controlled hardware should be treated as just another untrusted WAN hop.

These devices usually have detachable antennas, so just unscrew them

All antennas are detachable. Some can even be reattached.

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Post by nolok »

andrepd wrote: post #317
taxmeifyoucan wrote: post #101

For a hacker news article, it misses the crucial option - hacking a smart TV! I have LG OLED jailbroken using rootmy.tv, it was pretty trivial. It's basically a linux computer with a huge screen, you can customize it, SSH into it, map any commands to the remote, etc. Before I only used monitor, simple DP/HDMI input is all I wanted. But being able to take full control of the tv and connect it with other devices in the…

How would you block ads on such a TV? The problem is you still cannot connect it to the internet without unknown privacy intrusion... Maybe to the LAN only? But then it's usefulness is still limited.

Pi hole is enough for me on a modern Samsung

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Post by Acrobatic_Road »

IshKebab wrote: post #342
disambiguation wrote: post #141

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that KDE revived the Plasma Bigscreen project. No idea on the ETA but assuming all goes well I can see it becoming my daily driver very quickly. https://plasma-bigscreen.org/get/

The problem with open source TV solutions like that is that they never support legal streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and so on.

I'm failing to see a problem with that.

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Post by DudeOpotomus »

wappieslurkz wrote: post #408

I just ignore all the smart features and never connect my smart TV to the internet, and I disconnected the WiFi antennas from the main board. I use an Apple TV to feed it live TV, series and movies via apps.

this is the only way. Do not ever connect your new TV to the internet. Never, ever.

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by ori_b »

taxmeifyoucan wrote: post #101

For a hacker news article, it misses the crucial option - hacking a smart TV! I have LG OLED jailbroken using rootmy.tv, it was pretty trivial. It's basically a linux computer with a huge screen, you can customize it, SSH into it, map any commands to the remote, etc. Before I only used monitor, simple DP/HDMI input is all I wanted. But being able to take full control of the tv and connect it with other devices in the…

That still gives money to the people producing this garbage.
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