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Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
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Can you just not connect your Smart TV to the internet at all to bypass this? I never connect my Smart TVs to the internet, just my Apple TV since it’s my streamer platform. Seems like this would hamstring their ability to push ads.
If too many people do this, you bet "smart" TV peddlers will start bundling cellular modems on their devices, so they can connect directly to their servers without relying on your WiFi, just like car companies do. Blocking this would require enclosing the TV in a Faraday cage.
Blocking it would require a screwdriver, and a razor blade to cut some traces on the cellular modem.
It's a shame sim cards aren't a thing anymore because how fun would it be to harvest them from some janky shit product like that and then make a bonded backup network with the data plans on the sims until the company figures it out.
You would need to cut the antenna and then put a dummy load on it, disabling the modem would almost certainly give you errors that will probably make the TV unusable or break something you actually need for TV functions.