that_courtney

The spyware and apps are revenue features for the manufacturer. They help subsidize the price of the set. So get a TV with all that bloat for best value, and just keep the device off the net.

If you do want to put it on the net, here's some help on disabling privacy-busting features: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-t...

I feel like this solution is optimizing the wrong problem.

The bulk of work with managing a mail server (these days) isn't software setup and admin. On the receiving side, it's all the work dealing with abuse and attacks. On the sending side -- and this is the tough one -- it's getting sites to accept your email. When I finally gave up managing my own mail server (about two years ago), I found that about every six months I was involved in some panic where some large mail provider (Microsoft and Google most frequently) decided they didn't want to accept email from my server. Solving these issues is neither easy nor quick.

These days I'm very happy to pay somebody else to run email services using my provided domains.

Unless you are looking over my shoulder, you won't know if I opened your email. And regardless of whether you are looking over my shoulder or you are instrumenting messages with intrusive surveillance, you're being creepy. Cut it out.

You can't. It was never there.

I wrote the first custom NNTP client for Deja. (This was a high-performance replacement for the community, open source client.) All it did was receive and dump articles in a format for the indexer. It did some light processing, including stripping uuencode content. So uuencode never even made it into the archive.