Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 4 months ago

I want my smart Android TV to be dumb again

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I want my smart Android TV to be dumb again

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Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 4 months ago

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Smart TVs are all well and good, but when ad-focused update lobotomized my new-ish Android TV, we hit a problem.

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I am still using a dumb LG TV from the before times, and love it. I fear the day that I need to replace it.
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  There are still dumb TVs, they just cost the same as a smart TV.
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  I have an old “smart” Vizio TV from like 2012 (?) that has outlasted 2 new 4k smart TVs. I’ll stick with this guy till it pops

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