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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads(arstechnica.com)

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Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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That’s the point they are making. Currently that’s possible. But what is stopping the producers to force you to hook it up to the internet?

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coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world
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O… damn.

Not buying the tv might work… at mass. Like everyone. Please people, vote with your wallet/privacy.

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Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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Not gonna happen. People are fine with that.

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𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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They already do, vizio sets and roku TV sets require an internet connection as soon as you power it on to set it up

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ares35@kbin.social
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roku because you ‘need’ an account to use (try here for one without a payment method requirement).

vizio must be a new thing for the current models. mine (bought last year, and was “last year’s” model then) didn’t need a net connection to set up for using as a ‘monitor’.

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