• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Shouldn’t have ever connected it in the first place. I spent $30 on a Chromecast that gets plugged in and connected.

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      1 year ago

      That has to be an American-market thing, really.

      My Samsung TV has never pulled this shit. It used to have free Internet access, now it’s behind a DNS blocker because it wants to do phone home a LOT, but even when I unblocked it to download an app I wanted, it didn’t do shit that it shouldn’t have.

      It’s still likely the last Samsung TV I’ll ever own - I don’t like the app availability on Tizen much - but I just don’t see all this adware that everyone keeps talking about. Mine’s a 2019 model though, maybe it’s only newer ones?