Comment on stupid smart TVs

• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t care what’s “important” for some random marketing executive to know about me and what’s happening inside my house.

  I bought this device and I will use it how I want and not how these predatory bastards want.

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  • thegreekgeek@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yuuup. Fuck their “features” with a rusty shovel.

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• Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bluetooth gets a normal plain text device name, and many of then are default. Knowing “Steve’s S20 FE” is near by is more useful, especially when farming that information from tens of thousands of tv’s and cross referencing that with other factors like income demographics for a given area.

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t the Bluetooth beacons only see the MAC address unless it’s in discovery mode?

    I don’t know the actual spec, I just thought that’s how it worked.

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The best part of this? They know you inside out, what you watch and listen to, where and when, and then use it… to try to sell you stuff you already have.

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    • ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You would think that with all that demographic data and spying on everything they’d have a clue, but it’s like they’ve not been using it to make products better at all. It’s like they’re finding out just exactly how awful something has to be until we complain.

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