An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS

I want a TV with NO OS.

My current TV is clawing my firewall like squirrel with rabies. I'm sure the next one will too.

An ad giant already owns and controls my current TV’s OS

I don’t want an OS on my next TV…

FYI for those using DNS-based adblocking: I discovered that my AndroidTV box asks 8.8.8.8 when my local DNS server blocks a request.

I have an old 60 inch 1080p TV from the early days of smart tvs. It has a built in app for plex and youtube, a remote that works as a pointer, it's insanely slow but it has zero ads and I'm never ever getting a newer model.

Don’t ever connect them to the internet. Period.

If it’s required, buy a different tv. It’s not difficult to look that up beforehand.

Googles been a TV OS for a while now.

Solution: get a dumb tv

The biggest ad giant in the world already controls my TV's OS

What's with the clickbait title?

This is not news, it has been happening since Smart TVs started being a thing.

One of the most common TV OSs is AndroidTV / GoogleTV. Google is the biggest ad company in the world.

Now all you need is a built-in camera to prove Orwell was right... only off by a few decades, really.

"A convicted felon and sex offender wants to control your next country"

Anyone know of a reasonably priced OLED/QLED, >60", 4k TV without smart features?

I really don't want the spyware and adware that come with newer smart TVs, and I'm willing to pay a bit of a premium for it. I'd also be happy with a unicorn smart TV that doesn't have any of those anti-features.

normal people can't just.... grab a single board PC and... install Linux on it! What are they supposed to do!?

I dunno, suffer, I guess. Pass the keyboard. I'm feeling Friends.

edit: my cousin and his wife came over about four months ago and saw we used a keyboard and the TV was just a computer and he went "why the fuck haven't we just done that?". He doesn't know know Linux, but he has a Steam Deck and got by alright.

Sometimes, they just need the idea, a little push.

Seeing this just makes me want a tv that is just a monitor, no crap you just plug in your own thing whatever you want.

What’s a TV? Is that like a monitor?

My video projector is dumb, and that's the way I like it.

How bout no

Pi hole FTW.

For fuck’s sake.

So stupid! Everyone knows if you want people to see your company's logo, you gotta put it on the back of the cereal box, at the bottom of the cereal bowl or on the front and back of the poon! The spoon is literally observed by every single human on every bite....here come the rice crispiest!...jeep! I gotta get me a jeep! Look! It's on my spoon!

Good thing I don't care about owning a tv I don't already know how to jailbreak.

Smart TVs are why I'm never getting rid of the old Samsung TV I'm currently using as a monitor for my desktop. It's not quite flat screen like an actual flat screen, but at least it doesn't have a camera attached to it (besides the USB camera I keep unplugged unless needed), no microphone, and no ads. Plus, I still have access to all the other types of things I need like AVI and coaxial inputs, besides HDMI. It's gonna be the saddest day ever when the beauty decides to die on me.

I got a old dumb Toshiba tv lol.