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- technology@lemmy.world
- privacy@lemmy.world
48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.
The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service providers, have developed a “surveillance system” that has “long undermined privacy and consumer protection,” according to a report from the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) published today and sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Unprecedented tracking techniques aimed at pleasing advertisers have resulted in connected TVs (CTVs) being a “privacy nightmare,” according to Jeffrey Chester, report co-author and CDD executive director, resulting in calls for stronger regulation.
I hate our TV so much.
I have a HTPC but it takes forever to turn the TV on and switch to HDMI input.
Also my wife refuses to use HTPC.
This is awful, but our non-dumb TV (we have two TVs) is so damn slow to start and switch over that if we know we’re going to watch something on it the next day, we just don’t turn it off.
But that one gets a lot less use, so it’s not left on all the time at least.
Yeah. God forbid you have to navigate the UI, it’s like wading around in a swamp.
Use the HTPC as a Plex or Jellyfin server and plug an Apple TV or something in over HDMI. Much more user friendly
That’s what I’m doing?
Just that I have a shitty TCL TV.
Oh, I thought you had the actual PC plugged into the TV and your wife was struggling with that.
Now I’m confused. I do have the actual PC plugged in to the TV. Isn’t that what you were suggesting?
I have a Lenovo M700 running LibreElec (just enough OS to run Kodi), which passes a HDMI signal to my surround sound receiver.
When you turn on the TV, it takes about 2 minutes for android to boot up. Then you have to switch it across to HDMI input so you can see the signal from the M700 / Kodi.
Kodi is pretty great and I do like it. The reason my wife doesn’t like this set up is because she likes to watch things on youtube and just let the algorithm choose what to watch next (I know right). You can watch youtube from Kodi, I even scrape youtube channels to my home server for the things my kids watch, but it just doesn’t work in this “let the algo feed me more” kind of way.