Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "People are lining up for a free TV that spies on you" video.

  1. I saw that, it's so f*cking stupid... I dunno who is behind that sh*t, but it's gonna be hilarious following this story. It will end up at the hands of someone who will gut it for parts, hack it up, and then make a video to show how to disable everything. The thing I'm curious about is exactly how are they gonna enforce their policy. Seems if you want to convert it to a non privacy killing TV, you need to pay 500 bucks for it. But I'm interested in how exactly they are gonna react when most of those devices ends up in the hands of people who will throw a towel in front of cameras, block the advertisement, dismantle it for parts, put it into some part of the house that has nothing on it, scalpers, etc. Because I'd love to pick one of those up, dismantle it, remove all cameras, sensors and microphones, and just use whatever is left. Perhaps they put some smart hardware block so you can't use the TV if the privacy invading stuff isn't there, but you know, for free I could just pick one of those up for parts. I hope all units end up trashed. Then again, I wouldn't get this either way... because the privacy invading stuff comes upfront. I'm not even willing to fill up a survey for that. I do agree with Louis though. There must be at least some portion of people who are really willing to make this deal and stick to it. But I guess I came to this realization a bit earlier... right around the time IoT was reaching peak fad status. People paying to get Internet connected smart assistant devices, baby monitors, and crap like that. Or the whole cloud services and storage thing. Or when I went to buy my TV and I could not find any option that didn't came with smart TV crap. Less offensive I guess... I just taped the camera, and never connected it to the network. Good to note, even after all the news came out that these Smart TVs are spying on people, things didn't change. They are all still coming with all the smart TV crap. Earlier yet, Snowden revelations and Wikileaks stuff. But still, it shows a willingness of people to treat privacy as something with no value, not worth protecting. The other thing that this product signals is how much money is being spent on startups like those... touches another thing that we all know, that the startup and investment system in US is completely broken. The entire era of "sharing economy" crap is also all about privacy invading mass data collection crap nowadays. It's like Silicon Valley and whatnot can't think of anything else anymore, there is no money to be made other than getting into the parallel economy of mass data collection.
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