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Smart TV is such bs.
At home we have a computer monitor connected to raspberry pi which can do literally every type of content including games while running pi-hole and device backups in the background, VPN included. Ain't nobody tracking my family..
Ain't nobody tracking my family..
Wrongthink detected, employing field-agents.
^/s
I’m surprised Texas is doing the right thing here
Manipulating stocks and extorting companies?
This is a shakedown nothing more. Same as the Tylenol causes autism things last month.
How is this equivalent? Unless ACR is not actually violating anything and truly harmless, I don’t think this is equivalent at all.
Because this is a shakedown, its has NOTHING to do with actually stopping the ACR privacy invasion. At no point will Texas actually do anything to stop the issue. They simple telling those companies to pay them off.
Looks like the telly industry missed a payment this month
Since this is Texas, I'm predicting the suit will be settled once they secure a contract that ensures they get copies of every collection in Texas, indexed by name, address, and if available, SSN in perpetuity.
palintir sure wants this data.
They need to identify threats to Texas democracy: specifically anyone who turns off their TV during an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger.
It still upsets me that Chucky turned out to be such a horrible shit strain of a human...
I mean, once they're a state-sanctioned invader, it's not longer illegal
Literally 1984
I personally submitted Hisense's ACR servers to a popular DNS adblock list that's used by a lot of products.
And just like that, anyone with a VIDAA TV hiding behind a pi-hole went dark.
We should really make sure every TV gets checked.
I wonder how long it will take until they start using DoH and conveniently make the TV fail if it's blocked...
Those Texas MAGAs are just pissed they didn't think of it first. Give them a bribe, they'll go away.
However, it's also possible that during setup, the TV may have asked if we'd like "an enhanced and personalized viewing experience." Who wouldn't say yes to that?
I dunno, anyone who actually reads it? "Enhanced and personalized" always means spyware. Always.
What the user sees:
Do you want to use this thing you paid for?
[I agree] [Go into a complicated menu that doesn't matter]
Techgoblin doublespeak should be illegal
Yeah, 100% decline anything that asks for personalized anything.
If the question is vague bullshit like this, the answer is "no".
You should try asking people about the last EULA they read the next time you're at a party. You're gonna be blown away.
Oh people like you make my head hurt. Not because you're wrong, because you're not. You're entirely right here.
The reason people like you make my head hurt is because you live in this self isolated bubble where you think everyone else is mentally on the same page as you.
You're baffled that anyone would agree to that checkbox, because anyone who reads it would understand as you understand that it's not in your best interest.
Whereas I'M baffled that you think hardly anyone reads the EULA of anything.
Google could literally put in their EULA "user agrees to chop off their genitals and walk barefoot on hot coals". People would still agree and check yes. Why? Because they never read it. They just click the thing that lets them do the thing and use the thing. Thats as far as 99% go with EULAs.
I've watched people like you in person complain that everybody doesn't do things their way. And while that way is, in general, a better way than is currently being handled, it all falls apart on one key aspect to not understanding the world. That important key being that the world does not see things through your eyes. They do not think of things from your perspective. But instead of taking action to create a world with better ideas being practiced, you sit on the sidelines, watching as the world does what the world will do, and thats be influenced by others. That is what humanity has always been. That's what it will always be. But in the last 200 years, instead of being influenced by the ideas of a community upbringing, and structure, and morals, it is now, and for all of our lives, been influenced by the ultra rich. The 1%.
We've fallen into a world where a persons worth is equal to their net worth. A world where celebrities and ultra rich businessmen are celebrated rather than shunned. Entire genres of music where the sole message is "I have money, therefore bitches fuck me". And the masses flock to it, because they have adopted that message as their own.
Here you sit. Not having fallen for the basic tricks that are played on society. That alone gives you a huge step up, to rise above the glass ceiling, break through, and bring changes needed to this world.
Instead, you ponder why no one else recognizes there is a glass ceiling. You question why others aren't doing things the way you would, while offering no resistence of substance.
Everyone wants to complain about shrinkflation, but nobody wants to stop buying the product. If they change the formula, or the price, or the portion size, or whatever, and suddenly they have 0 purchases, things go back how they were real fucking quick. It is up to us, as the ones who see what is happening to educate those around us. To filter out the static noise of the internet's social media. To teach our loved ones that they are being ripped off. Stop buying "smart" tv's. Teach those around you to only buy dumb tv's. And if there's no dumb tv's on sale, then there's no tv's to buy. And if they keep not selling dumb tv's, you keep not buying. You teach those around you to keep not buying.
This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can't take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.
But we'll never get to that point from the sidelines.
That was a staggeringly large number of words relative to the number of things you actually said.
This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can’t take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.
No, this cannot work. Their wallets are much, much bigger than almost all of ours combined.
tl;dr: I think I'm just going to press OK on this ~~EULA~~ wall of text.
5 quick bribes later:
Ken Paxton and Governor Greg Abbott announce new initiative to forcibly ensure working ACR in all Texans' TVs and reporting where they've directed, "to protect children from harmful content"
It can detect porn. They won't be bribed on this one.
Hmm yes you see we've realised that in order to prosecute the microscopic fraction of people who might be inexplicably watching CSAM on their smart TV, we need to spy on every single person on the planet.
And since we have that data anyway,we're gonna monetize the ever loving fuck out of it.
most pedophiles arnt watching csam on tv anyways, its on thier PCs or whatever they can use as a burner.
Bruh every single aspect of modern life is invasive deceptive and basically unlawful. I don't want to be a part of it anymore. And from the looks of it the plan is to make this surveillance and ai lifestyle the base foundation of all that is digital, including money once it goes digital with a government run crypto. This is already dystopian. And it's like there's a civil war revolution that will inevitably happen. They already do the dirt... So we are passed that... They are already done testing technologies, and are implementing them in the process of moving from fed funded public companies to government.
The decision has been made already, everything else is theater of false choice and false democracy.
Isn't that project 2025 in a nutshell. It's happening right now. And people just stay distracted by marketed BS made to keep them distracted.
It feels evil and rapey. The government and all that I was taught was "good" feels evil and rapey.
Why can't you guys take a win? Just say it's good Texas is doing this
Because at the same time they're trying to implement age verification for app stores while also very vaguely defining what an app store is.
The Act defines an “App Store” as “a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.”
So... what constitutes a mobile device? Who is an owner/developer? Does github have to implement age verification for mobile devices?
Because the people making these claims have an extremely consistent record of siding with rich donors instead of their citizens. They lie have a consistent track record of being caught lying. Trust is earned, and Ken Paxton has consistently done the opposite of that.
It is because of who is running Texas. We don't believe them. It's either kabuki, or a means to extract something from the corporations while blowing smoke up our asses.
Because the likely outcome will be a shady backroom business deal where they take a cut or just a payoff and you'll never hear about it again. It's Texas.
No. The likely outcome is this. I'm going to use fake numbers for the sake of demonstrating a concept.
Samsung spies on you. From the data, they can harvest $500 million dollars throughout Texas tv watchers sending info back to South Korea.
Texas says "Hey! Whoa! You can't do that! You better stop or we'll fine you $20,000 dollars!"
Samsung says "Ok", and keeps doing it. Pays the fine, and takes it to court. They lose the case, but cost Texas $15,000 of court costs just to win. Then they keep doing it.
Now Texas thinks twice about charging the fee, because last time they only got $5,000 after defending themselves in court.
Meanwhile Samsung just views it as the cost of doing business. And carries on.
Angry upvote. This is the case when they are serious about it. See my other comment for how I feel Texas approaches it.
I'd actually prefer a dumb TV, we only use jellyfin anyway and that could be served by some raspy or similar. But they're extinct it seems. At least modern ones with 4 or 8k.
I hate this dumbing down of everything.
Yes, I couldn't find one when my old LG from 2012 died. I did not activate wifi, added TV antenna. I already have Chromecast TV so I'm tracked enough,, thanks.
Really sad. We could even save a good portion of bucks due to all the shit noone needs. I can only imagine the crap pre-installed on Samsung TVs or other of those horrible bloat-brands.
Sceptre
Does this dude just eat lead paint everyday
Yes, but he's very much correct here. Paint-eating clock syndrome.
He probably just realised his TV now knows about all the feral porn he's been watching and is in damage control.
guess samsung didn't pay their bribe on time.
