IDK if you think that edit made it any less "sir, this is a Wendys" than before.

They basically said "nuh uh" and "you said we could, so it's fine!"

And definitely won't ever be breached, since they take the utmost precautions.

Did that analogy make you feel uncomfortable!? Oh gosh, why don't you go lick some more corporate boots I guess.

You forgot to call them a pedophile and literally Hitler. Falling down on the ranting lunatic job there.

Why sell them when you can just give them out to everyone.

I mean, when you have LG ads plastered all over your site, who are you going to side with?

Its more than an opt in or out problem with LG.
You remember, oh a fukin month ago? LG installs spywear with no prompt when you plug in one of their monitors on a pc. This TV shit is more of the same and certainly more egregious than other brands.

I've had good luck just grabbing the mic can with needle nose pliers and twisting. The few I've done that way just popped off.

And that's why I have to neuter any device I buy.
Fuken pain in the ass, but that's our world.

With your mentality we shouldn't complain or worry about anything since there is always something else to worry about, further more i'd like to add that (at least here on the fediverse) we complain always about all the kinds of privacy intrusions, i saw posts about all the kinds so your point is even more senseless

Holy shit this is deluded.

Very specifically says not fully blame. That means shared blame. Consumers keep eating shit with a spoon.

To be fair, it was never going to individual websites and the third party company doing ID checks was probably already passing all the data on to the US government and AI companies.

I assume they said some garbage, then a bunch of lies about reality, then attempts to gaslight people, followed up by more lies.

it's all company standards... lie and bullshit

I love the feeling of protection I get from willingly giving all of my personal data to a corporation who is super cosy with the most corrupt and oppressive US government there has ever been.

If they had any leg to stand on, they'd be suing, not putting up a PR front.

Wait ... are you lamenting the demise of the Micro$oft phone?
Seriously? In public and all? What the hell is wrong with you?
For the record, I DO blame the companies.

Unfortunately tomshardware is not what it was 20+ years ago.

Person kills another human being = Life in prison or possible execution.

Company kills a bunch of people = Maybe a fine.

This article whitewashed the whole thing and accepted LG's angle, right up to reprinting their bullshit in full.
Such crap is entirely insufficient for a tech publication, "Tom's Hardware has not independently verified either the claims made by Gamers Nexus in its documentary or LG's counterclaims."

Why? Why did you publish and throw up your hands saying "we know nothing"?
Was there possibly some money involved? Don't want to piss off your advertisers?
I reviewed this Stephen Warwick's articles. He's a corpo shill.
Miserable excuse for journalism.

App Tracking Transparency on iOS devices is an interesting test case for this argument. When an app wants to track you, you're asked in plain language whether you want to be tracked. You can say no. You don't have to be a savvy user to say no, and the consent is explicit rather than being buried in a EULA that you don't read. If you say no, the app will likely still work fine. Specific numbers vary, but somewhere between a majority and a vast majority of iOS users opt out when given that choice. How much that costs advertisers is harder to reason about (a lot of the data comes from advertisers themselves, who are hardly unbiased), but the data are at least consistent in arguing that ATT opt outs produce a quantifiable drop in ad engagement (clicks, etc) and ad spend.

I'm personally a big fan of ATT. You shouldn't have to be a savvy user to opt out of surveillance capitalism. I also don't personally care that much about how effective online advertising networks are. But I think LG and similar companies are probably not off base to worry about making it possible to cleanly opt out of everything. From their perspective, that wouldn't be a great outcome.