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Slightly off topic from crt nostalgia:
I do miss the older 'dumb' flat screens. Feels like all devices, but specially tvs, are spying on us by default. It’s an exhausting privacy arms race with my home network against ads or tracking.
I once got myself a small projector. It ran on Android. I didn't want to connect it to my network. Unfortunately, an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot would sometimes pop up nearby, which the damn thing would connect to in order to download ads and bother me with nonsense.
The workaround was to give it Wi-Fi, but block the internet connection in the router. The solution was to throw it away. Malicious little fuck.
Samsung TVs also notoriously do this. Even if you don't connect them to anything yourself, they will look for insecure Wifi accesspoints to upload their spying data to
Yikes, I have a Samsung smart TV. Guess I’ll be wrapping it in tin foil after reading this.