An ad giant wants to control your next #TV’s operating system - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/an-ad-giant-wants-to-control-your-next-tvs-operating-system/ "illustrates a significant shift for TV hardware toward products that are increasingly focused on ad sales and tracking." we need less of this, not more #surveillance #privacy
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Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 17:37:42 JST Karl Auerbach @glynmoody Uh, an ad giant *is* in control of a lot of TVs already - Google TV software runs on many brands and models of TVs, including one in our house.
(I have come to dislike Google TV - seems like glorified YouTube - and instead drive the TV from an external Roku to an HDMI port.)
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