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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)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This seems like the kind of data that can easily be added to a PiHole or Adguard Home blocklist, just need to find out which endpoint they are.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

That's what i do. I'm not super tech savvy but pihole is pretty simple to set up

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (15 children)

I have my LGs connected, but logged out.

It's a hassle in that it requires to log in and then back out for mandatory updates of some apps (others will update without a logout, for some reason), but at least it removes the need to agree to a whole bunch of their garbage and add it to an identifying account.

I would keep it offline and use a set-top box, but I have family members that aren't tech savvy and won't want more hassle than pressing the "Netlfix" button on the remote.

I'll say that even they are increasingly annoyed at the constant cookie prompts during live TV watching. Honestly broadcast TV is an absolute hellscape these days.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What else would you use to watch? I used to have my TV offline and watch through a Firestick and airplay, but now the Firestick is worse than the TV apps. I need a new media streamer, but even Roku has enshittified. At this point my only hope is Apple but Apple TV hasn’t been updated in three years

…. Or I might just give up, since Netflix decided my TV is not part of my household so I need a 2fa every time I want to watch.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Still very happy with the shield pro. Old as sin but does everything.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow, even has Apple TV+, which the Fire Stick doesn’t. Fairly expensive but the description looks hood

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

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.

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