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LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
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is it that hard just to a regular TV? i think with all the AI backlash and Smart TV fatigue that's kinda a reasonable solution. Def won't hurt anybody
The companies making TVs don’t want to sell simple displays, they want to expand their businesses beyond just one time sales of hardware. So they and the store fronts don’t offer the average consumer a simple display. People can still find them, but they need to be actually looking for a dumb TV and know what to look for.
everything gotta be scaling, eh. seems like a dead end.
They kept telling me that capitalism gave us choices.
Lol.
technically, it's not capitalism but free market that provides choices. capitalism kinda fucking hates free market.
You do have choices.
Right now you can have Samsung adware or LG adware.
They both want to sell your content watching data, demographic data, and stuff ads in the tv like Roku does at a layer you can't do anything about.
Even not connecting my tv to the internet, if I buy next year's tv it's going to have this shit pre installed and nagging.
I have a new LG OLED which is great, but it took a lot of tweaking in the setting slto get it to work without going to the homepage and the quick settings still waste space showing my the wifi isn't connected (which it will never ever be).
Depends on the country, but yes it is actually difficult to find a TV that is not android TV based or at least has WiFi and smart features built in, especially above a certain size/price threshold.
damn.