Unsmart a smart TV

BoscoBear@lemmy.sdf.org to Technology@lemmy.world – 405 points –

How standardized a lcd panels? Could I replace the controller in a smart TV with one of these HDMI to LCD controllers?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375318342725__

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The connection isn't for you. It's so the TV can fingerprint the content you watch, and then send that utilization data back to the company.

You don't need much bandwidth to do this.

So with no wifi connection, and a blueray player, if you play Star Wars, they can fingerprint a few frames, send them back to Roku or whoever over sidewalk via your neighbors ring doorbell, and know you played star wars... Even with your completely offline setup

Ah i see, so because its connected to other devices in the sidewalk network, if my neighbor has it hooked up to wifi and mine isnt, it still can connect to the internet.

Yea that sucks. I hate that. I have "smart" TV that i never connected to my wifi cause i use a pc for streaming.

Next thing yknow theres gonna be lte modems in these things that they pay to keep on just to spy on us ffs man.

Jacking off with a monkey paw while you dream of a mesh network. Thanks amazon.