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LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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How the fuck would you even use it on your TV?
You must understand: It's not your TV, it's LG's, and they will do with it what ever they want, and not to your benefit. This is the future we chose.
I don't recall be given options.
We do have the option of not buying their crap. We have the option of never connecting them to the internet if we ended up buying it. We have the option of blocking all their services and domains in our networks. We have options. Granted we have a limited range of options, but we do have options.
Stallman outlined our choices and told us this is where we were headed back in the 1980's. Since then, we have consistently made the wrong decisions. All is not lost, but the situation is dire.
The choices are there, you just have to be willing to inconvenience yourself.
You can’t shop your way out of enshittification.
No, but you can not shop your way out of it. Fuck it. Who needs a TV anyways?
We have all always had the choice to make politics something that the people do, and not something that is done to us.
You don't use it. It uses you.
The newer models already have the option to enable Google assistant and interface with it via a microphone in the remote control. Sounds like it's no longer an optional feature and is being AI enshittified.
My guess is voice control