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We as an industry should not be working or associating with Bill Gates anymore or anyone else that was associated with Epstein and his cohorts. I just assume anyone still working with these people is complicit and needs to be thoroughly investigated.

Don't get me wrong I don't disagree with what you and OP are saying in principle but at the time we do have to be realistic about the situation. These smart TVs run proprietary software stacks and hacking them to remove the ad and tracking 'features' is definitely a grievous violation of the end user license agreements.

If this trend became widespread enough to have an effect on these companies profits I would bet money the vendors would just go the legal route and crack down on it. All these LLM providers do retain logs of your sessions and these vendors would easily be able to subpoena those records. Once they start dragging people into court and mass filing cease and desist orders that's going to end it.

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.

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.

So where is it? It just says 'Request a Demo'. There's no download. Is this a commercial product/service?

They weren't 'effective'. It was colonialism. The Victorian 'elites' just stole everything that wasn't nailed down and didn't need to work as a result which was a system that eventually failed. There's a reason the monarchies and feudalism failed.

How is SCO still a thing?

A fool and his money are soon parted...

If not cult why cult shaped?

Unless you have some examples this is a straw man argument.

No but all those companies and the investors' money did disappear because that's how a bubble works. Industries don't create bubbles, the companies in them do.

I like how the Privacy page says 'No personal information. America.gov helps prevent you from sharing personal information before you send it' but then gives uploading your passport as an example on the main page.

Everyone involved is about to get a swift and thorough introduction to the world corporate contract lawyers. But don't worry, they're extremely sympathetic and understanding when you flub a multi-million dollar corporate contract and will happily refund that money.

Hypothetically you would have already paid for the ads before your account gets suspended/banned then hypothetically Google just keep sending you automated replies denying your requests for support until you give up or lawyer up. And when you consider the shear scale Google's adtech networks run at, this would add up fast and generate revenue over costs. Hypothetically