▲ 255 ▼ [Gamers Nexus] - LG Says We're Fake News (i.ytimg.com) submitted 2 months ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/technology@piefed.social 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments Invidious Youtube TL;DW: LG fails to do damage control and continues to act in bad faith. If you own a LG tv you should really get rid of it as it's a security and privacy nightmare device in your home.
[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 months ago (4 children) This is a good overview of the problem across the industry; https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/research/smart-tv-tracking permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (3 children) Goddamn that is a janky website. It is a decent article, if you whitelist enough of the site for it to render. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I believe they were purchased recently and all of the previously free content was put behind a paywall permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago Them being purchased is news to me. I'm pretty sure they just announced that the current model wasn't sustainable due to decreased traffic from Google and getting their results scraped for AI training. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago I found a good video from that team. Not very detailed, but it was honest content, well produced. Their website would probably be better if I wasn't blocking half of their resources. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (3 children) Goddamn that is a janky website. It is a decent article, if you whitelist enough of the site for it to render. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I believe they were purchased recently and all of the previously free content was put behind a paywall permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago Them being purchased is news to me. I'm pretty sure they just announced that the current model wasn't sustainable due to decreased traffic from Google and getting their results scraped for AI training. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago I found a good video from that team. Not very detailed, but it was honest content, well produced. Their website would probably be better if I wasn't blocking half of their resources. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I believe they were purchased recently and all of the previously free content was put behind a paywall permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago Them being purchased is news to me. I'm pretty sure they just announced that the current model wasn't sustainable due to decreased traffic from Google and getting their results scraped for AI training. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago I found a good video from that team. Not very detailed, but it was honest content, well produced. Their website would probably be better if I wasn't blocking half of their resources. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago Them being purchased is news to me. I'm pretty sure they just announced that the current model wasn't sustainable due to decreased traffic from Google and getting their results scraped for AI training. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago I found a good video from that team. Not very detailed, but it was honest content, well produced. Their website would probably be better if I wasn't blocking half of their resources. permalink fedilink source parent
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