It is. And it’s also terrible for privacy, but people do it with google as well.
It is. And it’s also terrible for privacy, but people do it with google as well.
Never connected my LG TV to the internet. I got an Nvidia Shield TV Pro hooked up to it. The default home screen got riddled with ads as well after I got it, but at least you can change it to a third party one and never have to see it again. Otherwise a cheap used Xbox Series S might also work, but is much bigger and arguably less flexible. And if you want a truly privacy-respecting device you might have to go with a Linux mini PC, though that’s much more involved to set up and many commercial streaming services won’t give you the full quality streams you are paying for.
Yeah… that’s why getting the driveless PS5 is a bad idea.
How short is short-term?
Not to take away from Zuckerberg, Musk, and the less-known people in tech like Thiel, but Bill Gates was and is a huge piece of shit who harmed more than just his competitors. Among other things he convinced the world that we need IP and patents for covid vaccines instead of sharing them freely, which alone cost countless lives around the world. I don’t even want to know what other ills his “philanthropy” has and will cause. https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines
(i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon).
It is more likely that you are just not aware of it.
Network-level adblock cannot replace browser-level adblock and vice versa
It can be on your home network, but it needs to be reachable via HTTPS through the internet. So yeah, a vps is probably the best option.