LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlights growing tensions in smart devices, where monetization often overrides user preferences.
At some point we’d have to start importing TVs from the other side of the Great Chinese Firewall to avoid unwanted US tech. It’s getting ridiculous.
then you get unwanted chinese tech.
It would have to phone home over the great firewall, which is the point
Uhh they let that sort of information in no problem. The firewall is more for random citizens not corporate servers.
I know people who watch Chinese dramas on those Chinese streaming apps here in Europe. The great firewall doesn’t block everything. And it’s mostly for outgoing traffic. Like people in China can’t get on Facebook, but people outside of China can get on WeChat, though making an account outside of China is impossible.
No it isn’t, I’ve done so.
From a European perspective, at this stage I think I’d prefer the Chinese tech over the American.
Yes. The way things ate going, at some point it may become less harmful and easier to deal with unwanted Chinese tech than American. Pay much lower profit margins as a bonus.
not judging by the absolute tirefire that is tiktok.