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LG is rolling out a new terms of use and privacy policy agreement. Looking pretty ugly over here with my "Smart TV". What can I do?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It seems to be related to some advertising push from a partner named Alfonso that is gathering information cross-platform anything that appears on your screen and pushing advertising to you during playback.
Hopefully not, but that's what it looks like from early reading.
You're asking the wrong person. I mostly watch stuff on a Windows tablet. I'm hardly your prototypical media consumer.
But when I do want to watch something on a nice screen it's an LG or Samsung TV where I haven't logged in and turned on as many privacy settings as possible. Mostly I use a local Plex server, and I do have a Windows PC hooked up to a TV as a media center and gaming device.
IMO there isn't a "good experience silver bullet" thing out there. You're navigating like three layers of advertising datamining on all options, including straight-up live broadcast TV. At this point it's about mitigation. I should give a pihole a try and see what that does to the TVs. If I could at least kill the need to manually opt out of live TV cookies every time a family member tries to watch something that'd be a major win.