On: Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

[raxxorraxor]

One would think that TV manufacturers would provide the means the root TVs so consumer would still buy them. Our TV is kept offline and a fanless low power PC facilitates all content. We would have liked to buy a new TV, but being the real owner would be a hard requirement for that. And a new one would just need to be able to do what the PC today already does.

Some TV already fail at just being a larger monitor and I think most products just suck.

[coin → raxxorraxor]

They sell the TV hardware at a loss or barely break even. The real profit is selling your usage data.

[salawat → raxxorraxor]

The people running companies aren't interested in selling things with the intent for you to own them. Not when it is perfectly legal to essentially lease access to the metadata of your usage patterns.