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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)

submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

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[–] lemmyBeHere@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Good. Have fun uploading any information about me without wifi or an ethernet cable. Smart TVs were a mistake, even the most expensive ones are slow and trash.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I needed some 70" for work displays had to spend like hell to go top of the line to get half assed quad cores.

[–] lemmyBeHere@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't you use a raspberry pi or something? My point was that a $50 android tv box beats the absolute top TVs both in terms of speed and compatibility with apps.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I dont need them for the smart, I need their menus to be consistently fast for automation. Response time for input changes, menus disappearing timely after boot.

When we buy $300 50" 'specials' and I start pumping IR at them for timed remote automation they always get hung up and start missing steps.