• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That has to be an American-market thing, really.

    My Samsung TV has never pulled this shit. It used to have free Internet access, now it’s behind a DNS blocker because it wants to do phone home a LOT, but even when I unblocked it to download an app I wanted, it didn’t do shit that it shouldn’t have.

    It’s still likely the last Samsung TV I’ll ever own - I don’t like the app availability on Tizen much - but I just don’t see all this adware that everyone keeps talking about. Mine’s a 2019 model though, maybe it’s only newer ones?

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      1 year ago

      This was in Europe - 2019 model as well. Must have been around 2021 or so, when TikTok was just taking off.