yes i commented without my reading glasses :)

I'm sorry, what?

they are being taken down on all state roads and our sheriff for our county is taking them down as well.

That's whataboutism. The simple fact is, the vast majority of people don't want or need microphone capabilities in their tv/remote (unlike a smartphone). But it's there and can be exploited. Add in the fact that TVs are opaque privacy nightmares. Do most people know what they're doing at any given moment? Not a chance.

And what about when they update the TOS again and conveniently switch those back on? And maybe even move the opt-out settings to another hidden location, or remove them entirely? Because that's absolutely a thing that happens.

I don't trust any of this shit anymore. You do you, but I refuse to allow any more companies reaching into my house to siphon whatever they can get their greedy hands on.

If they have microphones, they'd be violating Florida's all party consent law.

And you believe that?

I don't have to, I can verify with my own hardware that the data is only sent after enabling the option in question, and stops when disabled.

ICE is not stasi, ICE is SA. Know the difference.

I used duckduckgo at first now pay for mozilla relay.

Can't remember exactly why I switched. I think I didn't like it that I couldn't see the emails I had generated. Also you needed the extension for something and I found it annoying. In general I feel like I have more control in Mozilla relay than I had in DDG.

As for the price it's 1 eur / month. I treat it as a donation to mozilla and don't sweat it, considering I use firefox on phone / desktop they deserve it.

If those things have mics, he should play some Disturbed to accompany the video.

Ah, so the EU proposed it? Something that was already there and could have been used instead of the bullshit a web user encounters multiple times a day?

Let me guess what they will call it. hmmm Do not... send cookies... dooo not... fingerprint me.... dooo not.... track... track! yes track sounds nice. They should call it Do Not Track.

Thanks EU for acting that fast.

Further reading: "Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?"

https://read.misalignedmag.com/is-openai-taking-everyone-for-fools-2481fa851544

Just change your wifi password and never let it online ever again

Roku remotes are perfect for Flirc dongles. I repurposed one for Flirc as well. The Roku device it was attached to is long gone 😅

I wonder if the microphone can be repurposed for similar shenanigans? 🤔

This defeatist mentality is exactly what those spying want you to think. Why bother trying to be more private at all right? Might as well give up entirely

This is a known feature that is not hidden which is not automatically turned on by default.

You must set your TV to a different standby mode and enable LG voice control.

When you do this, it very plainly tells you that it can listen with the screen off so you can control the TV with voice.

And you believe that? Don't simp for billion-dollar companies, they don't need your help.

It's time to call it what it is. Spying.

Have you considered the possibility that many of the people you are talking to have things like degoogled phones with custom ROMs, while the remote is running a closed-source firmware that most definitely is spying on you all the time?

https://duckduckgo.com/email/

free alternative

There's a donation link at the bottom. I'm using Firefox's translation feature, and it works well enough (I don't speak German, either).

It isn't different issues though. It is the same issue. But removing the microphone from your TV remote is literally nothing if you live in a world with cellphones or have a cellphone or even just use the internet. Your router can see your house these days.

It's goofy.

How do you donate? I don't see a donation button anywhere... (it's all in German)

Part of that role, compensated at between $180,000 and $230,000, will be to “identify, assess, track, and investigate global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, nation-state targeting of the AI sector, and emerging security trends, including deep-dive research and OSINT collection on specific threats, actors, and events”

Corporations having intelligence agencies and operating as though they are nation-like entities is way too cyberpunk for me

"All right, so you've figured it out, fine. Now--let's get back to building a data center in your neighborhood..."

Hey LG, if you're listening, where the hell is my remote?

Bizarre take. Most of us are perfectly capable of being aware of more than one issue at a time. One doesn't cancel out the other.