Technology

Leveraging people's property to trash their privacy and serve them ads is really a good way to get me to avoid an entire brand for everything.

I recently bought an LG TV. I didn't connect it to the Internet, I just use it with my Chromecast or Switch. Works great, no ads, no AI BS.

If they ever make this a standard feature in all TVs and make it where I can't just disconnect it from the internet, I will be using old TVs for the rest of my life.

My TV is there to display a visual output. It does not and should not do anything else.

Continue to never buy LG products again?

Gotcha. The advertising works, i guess...maybe not how they wanted to, though lol

I'm about to live in a camper full of paper books. I hate everything tech has done in the last twenty years.

Can we please ban electronic advertising already? And billboards? Society would be better off without them.

Let's be honest: I, as a customer, want to make informed buying decisions. I want to buy food that is tasty and maybe is healthy, but not based on some image that some marketing guys want to push. I want to choose the car which is best (and cheapest) for my purposes, and don't want to be hearded into buying something else. I want to choose the best insurance for me and not be mislead by some emotional ad showing me a happy family.

And I really do not want to be manipulated in an emotional vulnerable moment so that I buy something. That's shady as fuck

Holy shit there were so many ads in that article that I just stopped reading. It sucks LG is going down this route. They make really nice displays but now I dont ever want to buy an LG tv if its spying on me to serve me these ‘better’ ads. Fuck advertising. Its turned into a complete monster

Enshittification in progress. Sadly their OLED TVs are amazing, if not for the intrusive ads. It is really crap what all those companies are doing shoving ads our throats.

I am trying to block everything using ad blockers, DNS filtering, Pi hole, etc.

This tech has been in TVs easily for the past ten years.

Did you know this stuff is in most modern cars, too? Fuck. EVERYTHING listens to you now.

I hate to use this phrase, but, back in my day, we used to call this SPYWARE and it was treated as a virus - it was highly unacceptable by people.

Literally TV from 1984

So we pay them to do this to us? I stopped putting tv's on the internet once I realized it offered me nothing useful. Firmware is about it and if that's the case I'll either usb it or put it on the internet for 5 min to do the update. Even then Samsung sucks so much with firmware the release notes for every single update are "bug fixes and improvements"... thanks Samsung.

If I am forced to put it online or it comes up with a way to phone home on its own, I am done buying those kinds of tv's, and I'm sure some other brand will offer one that doesn't, even if it isn't the best one to buy.

This is why you block the camera with a little diorama that shows a single white male viewer...frantically masturbating.

I'd rather just not have a tv

Simple solution I use: Fuck television sets, get a computer monitor and basic speakers instead. A display should do only one thing and do it well.

I was describing this to my partner and she thought i said "LGBT". Yes. The LGBTQ community created this technology and weaponized it. Next on Fox News.

that was always my beef with ads, they just didnt speak to me on an emotional level

HOW EXCITING...

said no one ever.

So glad I'm not in the market for a new TV

I’ll never connect a TV to the internet again.

Never connect your tv to WiFi

Don’t buy connected anything

Just buy things that do the thing you want.

No consumer ever asked for a smart tv

I wonder if they have a "depressed loser" profile and what kind of ads I will get.

if it's anything like the other ai features they offer, it will be garbage and never work and slow everything down

You know back in the day they were like easily half a dozen custom Android ROMs for any given phone. I'm pretty sure that there's still a diversity of ROMs available.

Why is this not the case with televisions?

Rather have a TV from 1999. Hope LG goes under.

I wish there was a TV with absolutely no built in smart features and a slot in the back for a compute module (like a RP CM5).

If you want a serious mind fuck read "stand On Zanzibar" a science fiction novel from 1969.

One of the things that the writer predicted was Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere, a gimmick where your TV would insert your family into advertisements.

The novel is full of other, equally accurate predictions...

My LG OLED has never seen an internet connection and intend to keep it that way for a very long time: indefinitely.