They are televisions from another era, replaced by the flat screen, high-resolution displays of the modern era. Yet cathode-ray tubes are still surprisingly in demand.
I once got myself a small projector. It ran on Android. I didn’t want to connect it to my network. Unfortunately, an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot would sometimes pop up nearby, which the damn thing would connect to in order to download ads and bother me with nonsense.
The workaround was to give it Wi-Fi, but block the internet connection in the router. The solution was to throw it away. Malicious little fuck.
Samsung TVs also notoriously do this. Even if you don’t connect them to anything yourself, they will look for insecure Wifi accesspoints to upload their spying data to
I once got myself a small projector. It ran on Android. I didn’t want to connect it to my network. Unfortunately, an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot would sometimes pop up nearby, which the damn thing would connect to in order to download ads and bother me with nonsense.
The workaround was to give it Wi-Fi, but block the internet connection in the router. The solution was to throw it away. Malicious little fuck.
Samsung TVs also notoriously do this. Even if you don’t connect them to anything yourself, they will look for insecure Wifi accesspoints to upload their spying data to