Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
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Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
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#2tl;dr: don’t connect it to a network, and/or use a computer monitor.
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#3"We, and our 226 partners use cookies and similar methods to recognize visitors"
Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
#4Don't bring one into your house?
Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
#5tl;dr: don’t connect it to a network, and/or use a computer monitor.
Yup. Works great. All things equal I'd prefer just not buying a damn Smart TV to begin with, but absent that as a realistic option (every 4K TV I've ever seen is smart) I'll happily settle with them never seeing one byte of Internet.
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#6"We, and our 226 partners use cookies and similar methods to recognize visitors"
This
Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
#7tl;dr: don’t connect it to a network, and/or use a computer monitor.
Yup. Works great. All things equal I'd prefer just not buying a damn Smart TV to begin with, but absent that as a realistic option (every 4K TV I've ever seen is smart) I'll happily settle with them never seeing one byte of Internet.
I’m in the same camp. The next escalation is defending against a TV scanning for, and joining unprotected neighbor networks to “phone home.” It’s a thing.
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#8tl;dr: don’t connect it to a network, and/or use a computer monitor.
Someone should start a blog where it's all clickbait titles and the articles are all once sentence with the obvious resolution to the bait.
Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
#9tl;dr: don’t connect it to a network, and/or use a computer monitor.
Yup. Works great. All things equal I'd prefer just not buying a damn Smart TV to begin with, but absent that as a realistic option (every 4K TV I've ever seen is smart) I'll happily settle with them never seeing one byte of Internet.
The article lists several manufacturers of 4k dumb tv’s
Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
#10tl;dr: don’t connect it to a network, and/or use a computer monitor.
My work health insurance recently offered a free scale and blood pressure monitor, I thought that's a nice perk, I'll use that, so I ordered with the intent of never using their app, just using it for my own tracking. The first time I used it, I got an email from my insurance company congratulating me and giving me suggestions. Both devices have a cellular modem in them, and arrived paired to my identity.
I destroyed them and threw them in a dumpster like that Ron Swanson gif.
All to say, little cellular modems and a small data plan are likely getting cheap enough it's worth being extra diligent about the devices we let into our homes. Probably not yet to the point of that being the case on a tv, but I could certainly see it getting to that point soon enough.