LG Smart TVs, Including OLEDs, Now Show Screensaver Ads
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/26/lg-screensaver-ads
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@daringfireball no way, I am not going to connect my TV to the Internet.
@daringfireball Really shitty because we picked the LG because back then it came with the least bullshit of all TV brands. I just did a factory reset of our LG and told the family that the TV is just a display for the Switch and Apple TV now. I don't think we will miss out on anything.
@daringfireball Related, this popped up in my feed today https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/
@daringfireball in the end all good things turn to shit with few exceptions (so far Apple have resisted.. just).
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@robert I don't know because my beloved LG TV hasn't touched the internet in 4 years.
@daringfireball This is even worse. I have an LG TV which I really like, but I’ve turned off WiFi now. (I watch everything through an Apple TV.)
@daringfireball my Toshiba "smart" TV is not connected to the internet, and the NVIDIA Shield I use to stream from my server is running an alternative launcher to kill the ads. It's a much better experience.
@daringfireball Same. LG Oled from 2019 (C9 65 inch). i plug an ethernet cable into it once per year to check for firmware updates. last one two months ago. other than that, Apple TV 4K rev2 is the only thing connected to the internet.
granted, i wonder those long until Apple gets tempted by that sweet sweet ad revenue.
@daringfireball All my TV’s are explicitly blocked on the router, just in case the TV settings aren’t honoured. All my viewing is via an ATV, though, I have to say, I’m little upset, that Apple have now decided to start auto-playing media from other sources, after I’ve finished watching media that I own. Not on, Apple, not on….
@daringfireball mine doesn’t. It doesn’t have internet access. 👍🏼👍🏼🤦🏼♂️
@daringfireball Same (ATV + LG), but there is one problem -- LGs have a "Hey, LG" type listener, that try as I might cannot be disabled! And since it's offline, it produces an error ever time it accidentally gets triggered. POS
@MonaApp Hey there. When I type the apostrophe in Mona for Mac it says right single quotation mark when it is an apostrophe. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Please let me know.
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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
“You’ve just lost a LONGTIME and very faithful customer."
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Neve heard of this device before.
Likely, I'll never hear of it again.
Like cooking without it is impossible. 😏
@arstechnica Seems when something has the word smart in it 's name it's target demographic is often someone who's not smart at all.
@arstechnica This is so ridiculous that I wrote a 'Modest Proposal' for my books to satirize it. See if you can get the joke: https://inkican.com/modest-proposal-update-to-inkican-terms-of-service/
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Any product that requires an app to work doesn't belong to you, no matter how much you paid for it.