It’s an interesting problem. At one point does someone just give up on buying TVs? I don’t necessarily mean “switch to a monitor + speakers” (which is a great alternative) — but rather I just mean at some point if the pain is great enough, why even have the TV? This is a technology category where people complain, but don’t actually change their behavior. Maybe in the current system there is no real market opening for dumb TVs; but if people actually cared, they’d just move away from watching TV altogether.
The vast majority don’t understand what is going on nor do they have the knowhow to do the things they want to do that the said smart TVs claim to do for them. For now at least.
Being technically-savvy doesn’t have anything to do with not buying a TV. I think it’s the HN crowd which might make firewall rules or use pihole, or something else to successfully subvert a smart TV. But you don’t need any technical prowess to simply _not own one._ (you would, however, need to have at least some understanding that where is a privacy / datamining issues, so I would admit these two issues could be intermingled.)
Nonsense. The majority could figure out how to install games or Microsoft Word. Why can't things be this simple? It's a failing of the tech companies and a $ issue.
