It’s wild just how much they’re trying to shove AI down our throats.
Never connect your TV to your wireless and wired internet, even on initial purchase. Use a USB when updating your TV.
and why would that be any different? do they offer special usb-stick no-malware upgrade or what?
Don’t upgrade it past the day you set it up. Set it up with something like Nvidia shield or a fire stick so when it goes fucky on you, swap it with a better product. I went from a Chromecast first gen to Nvidia shield, love both products. Never connect the TV to a network where it can update and change the terms of agreement after the fact, like adding ads, adding apps, etc. avoid Roku for this as well. Changing product terms after purchase should be highly illegal.
At some point we’d have to start importing TVs from the other side of the Great Chinese Firewall to avoid unwanted US tech. It’s getting ridiculous.
Or get a laptop or some other device so the TV has no choice but work as a simple display. We’ve come full circle
The new problem is AI running on the TV taking the images sent to it and processing those separately from everything else, and using that to see what you’re doing and watching.
Just use a DNS blocker ffs.
Sadly not a magic fix
Why not? That plus a good router forcing all DNS queries to you server of choice (e.g., Asus+Merlin) is the way to go.
I take it you never heard of hard coded IP adresses and DoH/DoT.
sighs… I take you never heard that hard coded IP addresses can’t bypass you router (using iptables/notables) forcing queries only on port 53 of your server of choice and that DoH/DoT servers can be blocked by a simple DNS blocklist (a feature in both ControlD and NextDNS, for instance).
