Why are there such idiotic smart TVs that can’t even turn off bluetooth?!
There are at least two such devices in my apartment block and my bluetooth audio transmitter always tries to connect to them instead of my headphones. I have already talked to the people owning those TVs and we tried to disable BT, but it just isn’t possible. This is driving me insane!
Tv companies use those features to collect advertising metrics. While the BT can’t connect with anything on it’s own, it can see things like what other bluetooth devices are near by and how often.
It’s a small inconvenience to the user but knowing device 001A3FD24AE3 was present during a viewing of all of Star Trek TNG in 4 weeks is critically important for the TV to know.
I don’t care what’s “important” for some random marketing executive to know about me and what’s happening inside my house.
I bought this device and I will use it how I want and not how these predatory bastards want.
Bluetooth gets a normal plain text device name, and many of then are default. Knowing “Steve’s S20 FE” is near by is more useful, especially when farming that information from tens of thousands of tv’s and cross referencing that with other factors like income demographics for a given area.
The best part of this? They know you inside out, what you watch and listen to, where and when, and then use it… to try to sell you stuff you already have.
Some TV remotes are now using bluetooth instead of IR, so yeah you can’t turn that off without locking yourself out…
I’m pretty sure the S-Pen uses some form of low frequency induction. It works for such a use case due to the immediate proximity of the devices, while a TV remote would likely be too far away.
IR can be used to send data. My first laptop had a IR tx/rx. We tried it for fun and it worked.
I won’t let my TV access the internet. No good reason for it. If I want spyware I’ll be one of the Amazon or Apple spyware modules. At least then I know its spyware that runs well.
That’s cool and all, but that has literally nothing to do with Bluetooth…
It means that the Bluetooth data the TV collects does not get transmitted anywhere. It’s better than disabling Bluetooth.
It should be legally required that on any system that has settings you should be able to disable wireless stuff.
Just start transmitting some music, it’ll get squared away real quick
