<story><title>Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-watch-tv-your-tv-watches-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>I had a very nice Sharp Aquos TV for a long time. One of the first reasonably priced 1080p 65&amp;quot; TVs. It had absolutely no &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; features, which was perfectly fine with me. I have my TV hooked up to a home theatre system and have my devices (PS4&amp;#x2F;AppleTV&amp;#x2F;XB1&amp;#x2F;Nvidia Shield) hooked up to that.&lt;p&gt;I recently upgraded to a LG 4K OLED TV. It&amp;#x27;s an absolutely gorgeous TV, but, I absolutely lament the &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; features of this TV. I get software update prompts on a regular basis for software I don&amp;#x27;t use (I&amp;#x27;m sure there would be some for the base system anyway, but, an order of magnitude less). The prompts when setting up the TV to accept myriad EULAs are obnoxious. Pop-ups advertising &amp;quot;features&amp;quot; on my TV which I don&amp;#x27;t want? Ugh.&lt;p&gt;I really want either a manufacturer who resells these panels with 0 features, or a mode from LG which disables all of this. &amp;quot;Lock to HDMI1 and disable everything but color management features&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;More on-topic with the article: I&amp;#x27;m a pretty tech and legally-savvy guy, but, even I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;ve toggled the correct order of knobs and declined the correct EULAs to disable that tracking. Moreover, I&amp;#x27;m exactly 0% sure that someone else didn&amp;#x27;t try to watch Netflix (via the TV and not the AppleTV&amp;#x2F;Shield&amp;#x2F;PS4&amp;#x2F;etc) and wasn&amp;#x27;t prompted to accept EULAs to do that. My point is, if I can&amp;#x27;t even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.&lt;p&gt;That said, it&amp;#x27;s a fantastically gorgeous panel. I&amp;#x27;ve had a lot of fun re-watching older favorite movies in 4K.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrPhish</author><text>What you are looking for are called &amp;quot;Commercial Displays&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Digital Signage&amp;quot;
Expect to pay a premium, but they are generally simple panels built to endure a very heavy duty cycle and harsher-than-a-living-room environment</text></comment>
<story><title>Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-watch-tv-your-tv-watches-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>I had a very nice Sharp Aquos TV for a long time. One of the first reasonably priced 1080p 65&amp;quot; TVs. It had absolutely no &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; features, which was perfectly fine with me. I have my TV hooked up to a home theatre system and have my devices (PS4&amp;#x2F;AppleTV&amp;#x2F;XB1&amp;#x2F;Nvidia Shield) hooked up to that.&lt;p&gt;I recently upgraded to a LG 4K OLED TV. It&amp;#x27;s an absolutely gorgeous TV, but, I absolutely lament the &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; features of this TV. I get software update prompts on a regular basis for software I don&amp;#x27;t use (I&amp;#x27;m sure there would be some for the base system anyway, but, an order of magnitude less). The prompts when setting up the TV to accept myriad EULAs are obnoxious. Pop-ups advertising &amp;quot;features&amp;quot; on my TV which I don&amp;#x27;t want? Ugh.&lt;p&gt;I really want either a manufacturer who resells these panels with 0 features, or a mode from LG which disables all of this. &amp;quot;Lock to HDMI1 and disable everything but color management features&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;More on-topic with the article: I&amp;#x27;m a pretty tech and legally-savvy guy, but, even I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;ve toggled the correct order of knobs and declined the correct EULAs to disable that tracking. Moreover, I&amp;#x27;m exactly 0% sure that someone else didn&amp;#x27;t try to watch Netflix (via the TV and not the AppleTV&amp;#x2F;Shield&amp;#x2F;PS4&amp;#x2F;etc) and wasn&amp;#x27;t prompted to accept EULAs to do that. My point is, if I can&amp;#x27;t even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.&lt;p&gt;That said, it&amp;#x27;s a fantastically gorgeous panel. I&amp;#x27;ve had a lot of fun re-watching older favorite movies in 4K.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>&amp;gt; My point is, if I can&amp;#x27;t even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.&lt;p&gt;The other point is that all these features are advertised on the box (Netflix, Alexa integration, etc) but you can&amp;#x27;t even use them unless you accept those EULA prompts.</text></comment>