LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers - eviltoast

LG’s TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    And another thing: it is absolutely an indictment of American society how we’ve all been conditioned to tolerate this shit, to the point that only one person in this thread even manages to think of it as a civil tort and everybody else just sort of shrugs and discusses technological workarounds.

    Where the Hell is the righteous anger‽ We should be marching on the FTC with fucking torches and pitchforks, to force them to start doing their goddamn jobs again!

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      Where the Hell is the righteous anger‽

      The ember is still there. Once in a while it flares up. But it burned too bright for too long, and is part of the reason why I’m a cynical husk of a human being. I advocate for privacy-centric thinking among friends and family but it’s either preaching to the choir (in the best cases), blank stares, or they’ve already got an Amazon speaker in every room just to turn the lights on/off and set timers.

      tl;dr I’m tired, boss.

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      There’s just soooo many idiots vs people that care and educate themselves on privacy.

      Every once in a while I visit friends or stay at hotels and catch a glimpse of cable… My God it’s just endless ads with minutes of shows sprinkled in.

      And they are paying for it…