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Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Smart TVs are usually sold at a loss because they expect to make the money back through ads, so if you never connect one to the internet in the first place, you get a cheap decent TV and you cost these cockroaches money

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I have heard that you can't just choose to not connect it, you actually have to route it to a dead end like a pihole. Supposedly some of these smart TVs will make you think you were allowed to bypass completely but have just connected to the nearest unsecured network.

    Not an issue for people who have no neighbors, but people who live in a suburb or city?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure about generally, but on Roku specifically, the first step is to kick it off your network. I Mac address banned mine because it was connected to wireless. Then I could use the menus. I used them to factory reset the TV. During the reset process you hit "do this later" on anything that is trying to get you to connect to the Internet. Afterwards, you've got a plain dumb TV.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I've heard that too. I've also verified that the only unsecured network in range is my own mobile hotspot, and never once seen my TV (or anyone else's in my apartment building) connect to it. We really need to stop saying that this is a thing that's happening when the only evidence for it is "someone somewhere said it once"

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