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		miki123211 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Sm... There's always going to be enough of a "dumb TV" market among the elderly / linear-only / no internet crowd to make that an extremely bad idea. Sure, some (high-end) TVs might do this, but definitely not all of them.

josephg 4 months ago [–]

Dumb tvs exist today; they just sell for a premium to make up for the lost adtech sales revenue.

I suspect this will continue. Ads and no privacy for poor people. The wealthy & well educated will have tvs that don’t spy on them.

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