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Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by bitwize » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

soared wrote: post #38

maxton wrote: post #15

Stuff like this is the reason I don’t connect smart TVs to the internet. If I need web content on the TV, I can connect my laptop with HDMI. The TV should be no more than a display and speakers with a tuner.

To each their own - 100% of the content I consume is Netflix or YouTube. For me a non-smart tv is useless unless I hook up something smart to it.

The thing is, the smart thing you hook up to it is under your control. It could be a laptop or Raspberry Pi.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by Eikon » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

nabla9 wrote: post #39

Eikon wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They would be sued to hell as the role of an isp is not to be a regulator of what a company can and can not do.

It could be sold as security feature for additional $1 per year.

Same issue. Once you enter subjective territory of what is good and what is bad, you are looking for troubles, especially if a for profit company is behind providing such a service. An obvious conflict of interest arises.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by hyperbovine » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #17

joeblau wrote: post #12

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?

Unlikely, because the third-party box probably uploads screenshots or does something equally noxious as well, if not today, then in the not-too-distant future.

I was kinda hoping Apple TV would adopt a more privacy-forward stance. No?

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by cityzen » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

I have my samsung spy device blocked at the router. Always amazed at the level of bullshit consumers have to put up with.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by toddmorey » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

Would love seeing the materials Samsung uses to market this “feature” to their partners.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by giancarlostoro » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #6

criddell wrote: post #3

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?

Too many people saying, “I have nothing to hide.” Also, people like “free” stuff.

Nothing to hide mentality ignores why America has a Bill of Rights. Becuase the moment you give a government too much control you have no rights. We are slowly working towards this. Little by little our rights are taken away.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by 83hajfjeijg » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

soared wrote: post #38

maxton wrote: post #15

Stuff like this is the reason I don’t connect smart TVs to the internet. If I need web content on the TV, I can connect my laptop with HDMI. The TV should be no more than a display and speakers with a tuner.

To each their own - 100% of the content I consume is Netflix or YouTube. For me a non-smart tv is useless unless I hook up something smart to it.

"The content I consume". When the fuck did people start actually talking about themselves like this, it sounds like it's straight out of a dystopian sci-fi novel from the 80s.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by pjc50 » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #3

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?

The video rental records were used to compromise a congressman from the ruling party. That's the only reason there is a specific privacy law for them.

If you want a TV privacy law, you'll have compromise a congressman.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by tjoff » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

The solution most of us fall back to is to never connect a smart tv to the internet.

But that is not a long term solution. It is only a matter of time before devices start shipping with their own sim card that you can not turn off.

I don't know what else to do but to focus on manufacturers that don't do this in the first place. If there are any.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by isoprophlex » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

And because these things will connect to any open WiFi network, you have to open them up and work over the networking components with a Dremel. Only then can you be really sure it doesn't fuck you over.

My Samsung asshole tv started showing banner ads overlayed on hdmi signals, already in... 2017 or so?

Fuck these practices.