48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.
The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service providers, have developed a “surveillance system” that has “long undermined privacy and consumer protection,” according to a report from the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) published today and sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Unprecedented tracking techniques aimed at pleasing advertisers have resulted in connected TVs (CTVs) being a “privacy nightmare,” according to Jeffrey Chester, report co-author and CDD executive director, resulting in calls for stronger regulation.
I hate our TV so much.
I have a HTPC but it takes forever to turn the TV on and switch to HDMI input.
Also my wife refuses to use HTPC.
This is awful, but our non-dumb TV (we have two TVs) is so damn slow to start and switch over that if we know we’re going to watch something on it the next day, we just don’t turn it off.
But that one gets a lot less use, so it’s not left on all the time at least.
Yeah. God forbid you have to navigate the UI, it’s like wading around in a swamp.
Use the HTPC as a Plex or Jellyfin server and plug an Apple TV or something in over HDMI. Much more user friendly
That’s what I’m doing?
Just that I have a shitty TCL TV.