I have an LG tv. They ask you to sign a EULA any time the voice command button is pressed on the remote. I hit it by accident sometimes and reject the terms

My LG TVs have about 6 options in terms and conditions . 2 are required to accept just to have the TV function, they are pretty standard. The remaining are focused on voice authorization, using your info for ads, making an LG account etc. I have never accepted those and my TV works just fine. I don't even have an LG account created.

However, there must have been an update that changed one aspect, I went to use the streamio app, and LG now requires an LG account to update it. I have not been prompted for the same with the standard streaming services. This is probably going to get me to finally use a streaming box. And before anyone jumps on me for not doing that prior, it's due to wife approval factor. I have to make it dead simple, no multiple remotes, no input changes, HDMI cec to auto turn on connected equipment etc.

I checked my LG TV settings it is actual Opt Out. By deault the options were turned on

Texas Republicans occasionally get it right, like banning AI for universities that uses category 1 data.

Hell, Abbot vetoed like 4 bills banning hemp derived THC.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

Normalizing this kind of thing is not okay. It doesn't matter if its in the TOS, it shouldn't be a technology in the first place.

Yeah, and companies aren't notorious for burying heinous shit like this in their TOS so that when they get caught doing it, some idiot will jump up to say "ItS iN tHeIr ToS"

That's such nonsense. We really need some sort of "reasonable person" standard for terms of service. It's common knowledge people don't read them, so companies feel free to insert whatever bullshit they want because why not?

Unless you're advertising your TV's ability to listen to conversations, putting an expectation on me to tell people the walls are listening is not reasonable.

Subscribing to Disney plus does not mean I agree to arbitration if your negligence kills someone at a theme park.

I should not be entered into a one sided irrevocable contract because I bought a TV and plugged it in.

"We own your TV screen, and the contents of your TV screen."

By their license agreement, whether you watch normie content, use the screen to display proprietary business presentations, use it to show family photos from a USB stick, or screen that private adult video you made with your wife, LG can technically analyze all that stuff, serve you ads based off it, or sell it (or provide it) to third parties including the authorities.

It's dark patterned to be opt-in

It's opt in, but tge article explains that it's nestled among a bunch of eulas that you have to click through, so unless you obsessively check which checkboxes don't have to be checked, you're going to find yourself opted in.

That is called opt-out though.

correct! the opt-in is served to the user in the initial setup, hidden in the user agreement screens… and it takes 5 different steps to turn off

It’s technically opt in, but they do the whole “you can’t use most of the TV’s functions unless you opt in, and we’re going to remind you of that every day or two until someone using the TV eventually hits Accept” dark pattern BS.

I didn't read it to but probably mandatory otherwise you can not use the tv

Especially if said denials comes after evidence that they're doing it in the first place. I wonder what was their train of thoughts here.