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toolslive 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware upd...

what bother's me even more is that they are constantly spying on me (phone home, what am I watching, ...) and pushing advertisements to my TV. My next TV will probably not be connected to the internet.

ce4 4 months ago | [–]

Why wait for the next TV when you can just disconnect the darn existing box now?

update 4 months ago | [–]

I use a pi-hole to block the spying. My experience with Amazon's FireOS & Roku is they phone home a lot.

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