I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.

Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven’t already.

Wiki link

  • @Waldschrat
    26•1 month ago

    Return it. If you hold on to it (even if you block the ads and all) it will signal the manufacturer, that this practice is fine.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 month ago

      Sounds like they might have the capability to just network block the device from their router too. At least that’s what I do, just in case someone tries to use it.

    • @grueEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      And then buy a non-smart TV instead. At least one company, Sceptre, still makes them. (I don’t want to make it seem like I’m shilling for a particular brand, but I genuinely don’t know of any other options, aside from commercial signage displays.)

      • @[email protected]English
        1•26 days ago

        Commercial displays might be the answer, all the smart bullshit goes against their use case so they need a way to go around it in case they still have it, and every brand have them.

        Last time I looked into it they were more expensive and had to be bought through an agent but that was a few years ago, thing might have changed.

        • @grueEnglish
          1•26 days ago

          Again, the brand I mentioned in the previous comment is a consumer-oriented one, that you can simply buy off Amazon etc., that still sells dumb TVs. I’d only suggest resorting to commercial displays if you’re boycotting that brand for some reason.

            • @grueEnglish
              1•26 days ago

              Ah, that’s unfortunate, and another good reason to consider resorting to a commercial display.

              'Course, it’s also possible that a commercial display is so much more expensive/a hassle that it might be worth figuring out how to buy a Sceptre TV in a country where it is sold and then importing it yourself.