Stop buying smart TVs. Companies will stop making them if consumers stop buying them and creating a market for them. Look for commercial digital signage displays. You can find dumb TVs with nice screens or ones that just run a stock Android.
Another way to kill smart TVs is to buy them at their heavily subsidized prices and then remove all the ad malware. Companies sell those TVs cheap and recover the costs in ads and selling your data so they will lose money.
But it's still driving sales. I'm from genx and did a stint in the corporate world. The decision makers at these corporations are looking at it solely and myopically from an analytics perspective and trying to make the line go up. Make the line go down. That's how you get through to these people.
Related:
An ad-free Android TV
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158942)
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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167587 - October 2026
Stop buying smart TVs. Companies will stop making them if consumers stop buying them and creating a market for them. Look for commercial digital signage displays. You can find dumb TVs with nice screens or ones that just run a stock Android.
Another way to kill smart TVs is to buy them at their heavily subsidized prices and then remove all the ad malware. Companies sell those TVs cheap and recover the costs in ads and selling your data so they will lose money.
But it's still driving sales. I'm from genx and did a stint in the corporate world. The decision makers at these corporations are looking at it solely and myopically from an analytics perspective and trying to make the line go up. Make the line go down. That's how you get through to these people.
Do they sell those at Costco where normal people buy TVs?
Sure, at 4x the price