Obligatory: you have been able to record people without consent since the 80s.

Should we shame people with phones if their phone has a microphone?

And if said asshole sponsors a project you use daily via the foundation, will you stop using the application?

Because I don’t understand. Really.

An “ad” for me is “buy Charm paper towels” or “install app you don’t have”.

“Continue watching Reacher Season 3” is not an ad.

For you it is?

So a “continue watching” or “new on amazon prime” is an AD now?

You can just move them off the top row and you get no “ads”. Only put stuff with no previews in there.

Wtf? Where? I have three and zero ads.

If I select a top row app, that application can “advertise” what’s new on the top half of the screen. That’s it.

Apple TV the device has no ads, zero, nada.

The person in question was German. Microsoft found suspicious images on their Skydrive and shut down the whole MS account, Xbox and all.

What was it? Pictures of his kids on the beach, which the puritan American algorithm determined as evil

Every cloud provider scans their storage, because the law is like that.

People have gotten their MS accounts closed when Onedrive was still called Skydrive due to automated scans finding suspicious activity

What ”launcher”? The TV app? You can just move it away. There is no launcher anywhere, every service along with AppleTV+ is just a separate application

And Google spyware is all open source?

Not at this scale. Remember that Apple is a hardware company first. They make money from hardware and app stores.

Google is the worlds largest ad company who dabble in hardware and services to increase their ad revenue.

What? There’s one icon that says “TV”. You can move it to the bottom and you won’t see any apple stuff beyond that.

A Samsung TV did this a few years ago, story on Reddit and HN.

It found an open passwordless WiFi and connected to it.

Not a popular answer, but Apple TV is the best out of the box experience. Zero ads, massive longevity. Mine is like 7 years old and still running the latest tvOS.

If you have the cash and inclination, Nvidia Shield is the hackers choice. Zero hardware upgrades in years tho, but software aplenty.

Just don’t let your smart TV access the internet in any situation, there’s no need. It’s just a stupid display.

He’s a religious nut, so wouldn’t put it past him.

Given that Mullvad is the gold standard for ACTUAL privacy, can be paid with cash or crypto, has no user accounts and has been actually tested by law enforcement and they got fuck all.

What is the alternative? Privacy first VPN, not “I wanna watch Japanese Netflix” VPN.

Need to look into your ebook flow.

I… dislike Calibre because of the “unique” UI setup and the fact that it’s next to impossible to self-host on a NAS.

But sadly it has every feature ever, which makes it essential and irreplaceable.