stupid smart TVs

frostinger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 148 points –

Why are there such idiotic smart TVs that can't even turn off bluetooth?!

There are at least two such devices in my apartment block and my bluetooth audio transmitter always tries to connect to them instead of my headphones. I have already talked to the people owning those TVs and we tried to disable BT, but it just isn't possible. This is driving me insane!

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Tv companies use those features to collect advertising metrics. While the BT can't connect with anything on it's own, it can see things like what other bluetooth devices are near by and how often.

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