Trying to watch the game and do i really want to stare at this BS?

No google. I don’t want your data mining creep. But of course you’re going to make it difficult to remove your intrusion without breaking. I know it’s bad just by the fact that i am unable to remove the message. And there is a timer for how long you long press as proof that i know what i am doing when i decide to sell my soul.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this trash without actually trashing my tv?

  • spongebue@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Sometimes I think about changing out my 13-year-old 1080p TV for something with 4k. Then I see crap like this and hope it never dies.

      • webhead@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Most TVs are dumb if you never hook them up to the Internet. I don’t allow my OLEDs on the Internet generally and simply use a different device to stream and do all the things (webOS is actually pretty cool but LG is obnoxious like this sometimes). Even if your TV is good enough, this shit happens anyway. At least if my shield gets obnoxious, I can replace it with a different device.

        • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s the solution I used in the end too. It was for my parents TV, which is a smart TV with an OS that just sucks. I have a server with Jellyfin and every time they wanted to open that, they had to navigate to the app store, open that, open “Web App Tester” and then click the link for Jellyfin. The TV was also really slow in general, it always took like half a minute to connect to our WiFi after turning on and it randomly started to flicker. Then I found the Xiaomi TV Box, which comes with a bluetooth remote and can be hooked up to a TV over HDMI. It runs Google TV, which is just the new name for Android TV, so it has Jellyfin as an app and all the other issues were fixed as well. I know that still sucks privacy wise but my parents don’t care about that and they just wanted something that works. We also wanted to replace the smart TV with a dumb TV at first but all the dumb TVs we could find were a lot smaller and only 1080p instead of 4k, so we just disconnected the smart TV from our WiFi. This new setup is an improvement in every way and we can replace the TV itself and the Xiaomi TV Box independently if we ever need to.

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Here is what I do, but ofc not for live sports.

    My TV does have access to my wifi but I blocked its MAC address from actually accessing the internet. I have a jellyfin server on my network that also can not access the internet. Now my tv can see the jellyfin server without any data leakage, cause they are on the same network :) maybe this helps some of you.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      1 year ago

      Why should the jellyfin server relay the internet connection from your tv if it isnt a router or proxy server??

        • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I think his question was why bother keeping the jellyfin server disconnected when there is no way for the jellyfin server to forward packets for the smart TV.

          For the record there are other valid reasons for keeping jellyfin offline, just trying to elaborate on the op question

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            Jellyfin and TV are barred from accessing WAN. They can both access LAN only, and see each other.

            No adverts, no telemetry.

            All configured in the router, and no extra ip blocking rules needed on jellyfin or the TV

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I explicitly wanted a google one, not some Samsung-shit who add their own garbage on top of Google’s garbage.

      Samsung TVs run Tizen which is their own OS, rather than a skinned Android TV. It’s pretty minimal so you need some other box or stick if you want a good watching experience, but it doesn’t do anything hostile as long as you turn the tracking bs off at setup, and there are no ads in the UI (at least on the 2019 model my parents have).

      There’s no truly open source TV OS though :( I miss Firefox OS

    • frank@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      1 year ago

      I couldn’t find any properly dumb tvs in a recent search and got a Google TV. You can set it up in “dumb mode” at startup and it never does a thing online. Can even do firmware vis USB if you felt like it for some reason.

      Happy with it so far! 4k and OLED, a decent price imo as well. I’d rather it be fully dumb but this is close enough.