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LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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Or get a laptop or some other device so the TV has no choice but work as a simple display. We've come full circle
The new problem is AI running on the TV taking the images sent to it and processing those separately from everything else, and using that to see what you're doing and watching.
So... next step is to cut it's wifi antenna and fill the ethernet port with superglue? Tech is amazing /s
Open it up and desolder the networking chip. It's the only way to be sure. Hope you've got a heat gun!
Just use a DNS blocker ffs.
Sadly not a magic fix
Why not? That plus a good router forcing all DNS queries to you server of choice (e.g., Asus+Merlin) is the way to go.
I take it you never heard of hard coded IP adresses and DoH/DoT.
sighs... I take you never heard that hard coded IP addresses can't bypass you router (using iptables/notables) forcing queries only on port 53 of your server of choice and that DoH/DoT servers can be blocked by a simple DNS blocklist (a feature in both ControlD and NextDNS, for instance).
I thought you just needed "a DNS blocker ffs"
That alone would solve 99% of the problem.
What other statistics can you pull out of your butt crack? Rhetorical question. Here's one I pulled out of mine: blocking DNS requests is out of reach of 98.5% of the vast majority of most users, probably. Hell. That is likely how many users don't even know about it.