I got this a few months ago -- 4k, solid brightness, and ok color.
Is it the OMG BEST? no. But I Disabled wifi, and even the channel display.
I use it with an apple TV with CEC on the TV -- I turn on the apple tv, TV turns on straight to apple interface. I turn off from the apple remote, TV turns off.
Never ever connect your "Smart"-TV to your network, or if you have an incurable impulse to then make sure it's on a firewalled gateway-less VLAN. Take the money you save buying the thing (compared to what a profitable "dumb" version would cost) and buy a surplus corporate mini-workstation system, and slap LibreELEC/Kodi or whatever on it, and use that device as your "smart" device. No good for you can ever come from bringing the TV onto the internet... ever!
I've always have a deep, instinctive revulsion for smart TVs, but every year I read of some new mandmade horrors beyond comprehension, and it escalates by a few more points.
This turned out to be more ethical than I thought. I'd thought there wasn't any consent at all, or the actual mention of proxying was buried in a 20 page EULA.
Is there enough 4K content available to justify replacing an older Samsung 1080P LCD? I still find free TVs on Craigslist. When I see 4K TVs running in demo mode at Costco I'm impressed, but at home watching World Cup over the air or on Fios at 1080P looks good enough. I don't pay extra for Netflix 4k and most Fios content is not 4K.
It's not Smart TV apps specifically, it's all free apps. They have to monetize those somehow, don't they? And you get upset when you see ads, don't you?
I absolutely adore my 2018 jailbroken LG OLED, although it pains me that everything I love about this TV are features the manufacturer actively discourages and wishes I never had access to.
I have a 2018 Samsung QLED SmartTV, I use Pihole to block data collection and since it has Google DNS hardcoded in it, I use OPNSense Firewall rules to enforce any DNS request to Pihole.
My TV has only one AD that no longer shows for years now, LG is ADs all over the place. My home setup allows me to have a smartTV without compromises it.
Since it runs TizenOS, I can use my Linux PC to install remove apps from it like installing Jellyfin App so I do not depend on Samsung releasing it to the app store.
I just implemented bot and crawler detection as well as ASN based blocking for our website, because I’ve seen a massive rise in scraping coming from VPNs and other networks that mix legit and illegitimate traffic to our service. My theory is that small companies are scraping the shit out of everything and selling results to llm creators. It’s going to be interesting to see this expand into residential internet providers through holes like this… wild new world!
If you could anonymously proxy from anywhere to anywhere else, the internet would be region-lock-free and anonymous again, just like it was to support it's boom in 1999.
Good on these guys I say. When it becomes normalized, we can integrate these 'privacy proxies' into desktop and mobile OS's too.
I have a few LG OLED tv's. I do not ever connect them to the internet - I just treat them as dumb hdmi/dp displays. One is driven by an Apple TV, the other is connected to a Linux gaming pc. Haven't had any issues at all.
- “Your app should only collect the minimum user data required for providing service and should avoid collecting unnecessary data.”
- “LG performs security reviews on submitted apps before distribution, using the vulnerability analyzing system.”
- “All app developers must complete and submit well-defined and comprehensible data safety information detailing collection, usage, and sharing of user data.” They explicitly classify the "IP address" under Device Identifier Information.
Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
(spur.us)258 points by microcode 23 hours ago | 165 comments
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I got this a few months ago -- 4k, solid brightness, and ok color.
Is it the OMG BEST? no. But I Disabled wifi, and even the channel display.
I use it with an apple TV with CEC on the TV -- I turn on the apple tv, TV turns on straight to apple interface. I turn off from the apple remote, TV turns off.
It's effectively "an apple TV" -- I'm happy.
(Also: never paypig, never subscribe!)
Based on the headline I thought it’s the built-in apps.
1. Desoline (based in Netanya (Israel)
2. Bright Data (based in Israel)
Interesting.
Basically it's either this or pay for your apps.
My TV has only one AD that no longer shows for years now, LG is ADs all over the place. My home setup allows me to have a smartTV without compromises it.
Since it runs TizenOS, I can use my Linux PC to install remove apps from it like installing Jellyfin App so I do not depend on Samsung releasing it to the app store.
If you could anonymously proxy from anywhere to anywhere else, the internet would be region-lock-free and anonymous again, just like it was to support it's boom in 1999.
Good on these guys I say. When it becomes normalized, we can integrate these 'privacy proxies' into desktop and mobile OS's too.
- “Your app should only collect the minimum user data required for providing service and should avoid collecting unnecessary data.”
- “LG performs security reviews on submitted apps before distribution, using the vulnerability analyzing system.”
- “All app developers must complete and submit well-defined and comprehensible data safety information detailing collection, usage, and sharing of user data.” They explicitly classify the "IP address" under Device Identifier Information.
https://webostv.developer.lge.com/develop/guides/privacy-gui...
Blatant lies.
Why does a TV need security software?
70% AI.
The only content not flagged?
Copy and pasted PR comments.
Invisible Unicode characters, triads, unnecessary markdown.
Good work, obviated by bloviating. Readers dropping off near-instantly.
A company leaving a slop trail behind its wake.
AI DDOSing should be shameful.
https://www.folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618246
I still do not know how the damned thing got internet.