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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Vent@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ubermeisters@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

Owning a smart TV is one of the stupidest things you can do.

I'm admittedly this type of stupid, but I also know how to blacklist all the domains my garbage ass Vizio tries to phone home to.

They make the devices cheap so that they can spy on you. It's the New Deal.

Edit: I see i'm not the only one who gave up on finding a reasonable TV and just opted to neuter a Smart TV instead. Now that I'm not in a position of "me want now, nothing in local store", I think Ill take a few moments to do some research for everyone, and myself, just to highlight that there actually are still options. Heres a few brands I found that still offer Dumb TVs. I know nothing else about these, and am not in any way promoting these brands or claiming they are good at all. IDK.

This is not endorsement

Sceptre, breaks "Smart TVs" out as separate "android TVs" group, From "4K UHD" and "LED" offerings: https://www.sceptre.com/
Supersonic, breaks out "smart TVs" from "4k " and "HD/FHD" TVs: https://www.supersonicinc.com/
Caixun, breaks out "Linux" and "Android" TVs, from "4k" and HD" TVs: https://www.caixun-global.com/

If anyone has relevant info about these brands, related to if they are good or suck... let me know.

[–] jvisick@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Admittedly I haven’t been looking that hard, but I don’t think I’ve seen a TV for sale in the past 10 years that wasn’t a “smart” TV.

[–] ubermeisters@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've updated my comment with some info, Hope it helps next time you're in the market.

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