So the main concern with keeping it in dumb mode I would think is that they could still snoop in on your streams through the plain old HDMI port.
So they snoop. There's no value to be had in it if they can't report back to the mother ship. Without a line of communication, the "personalized" ads premise fails.
So they snoop. There's no value to be had in it if they can't report back to the mother ship. Without a line of communication, the "personalized" ads premise fails.