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Don't buy a TV. Buy a monitor.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/samsung-65-inch-commercial-4...

Monitors are no longer safe. Bought a new monitor 2 years ago (Samsung) after many many years of not upgrading.

Turn it on and it wants me to make an account, agree to a new TOS update once a month, comes with the full smart TV interface junk. Had no idea that was even a thing they were doing to monitors when I bought it.

One thing I know for sure, is never Samsung.

I have a few year old LG oled and keep it offline.

Which model exactly is that?

Even monitors are not automatically safe nowadays:

https://windows.gadgethacks.com/news/lg-monitors-installing-...

Well if you expressly install malware on your PC (not referring to the LG driver), then you really shouldn't care about the TV breaking privacy.

This is not how consent works. I appreciate the malware consideration of Windows, I hate it as well. However, using an OS, and having it auto-update a driver does not mean that whatever else is also welcome to be installed alongside that driver. And Microsoft agrees here:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/microsoft-responds-t...

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