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Comment by black_13 | Hacker News Reader

How about not watching tv

This comment was flagged and I vouched to reply.

This general issue should be of concern to everyone, because we're starting to see 'smart monitors' from the big vendors as well. More people need to be aware of what's going on so they can make an informed choice about if and what to buy. Maybe most people really don't care about this. But I'm personally not interested in a future where the only affordable displays - tv or computer - spy on me to inform advertisers.

My new Samsung monitor has a Lightning dock integrated into it. So on the back of the monitor, there is an Ethernet port. Presumably this is only connected to the dock, but we have really no way of knowing. I won't hook up the Ethernet port on this thing ever, because I no longer trust anybody to not try and spy on me and steal my personal information. Honestly, if this monitor hadn't been given to me, I would not have paid for it.

Why not just reply top level? Nothing you had to say required responding to a person offering an absurd solution to the problem of our electronic devices spying on us.

I don't think it was absurd, just unrealistic.

I replied here because I felt like it, but thanks for your feedback.

That’s what my family has been doing for past 16 years. There’s no TV in the household and that’s not going to change in foreseeable future.

Instead, we have a lovely home library (though we are running out of space).

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