[beezischillin]

It's not really worth it for them to make dumb TVs either, I assume, since that implies they can't shove ads and telemetry into them.

[black_puppydog]

The point being exactly that since we're now entering a time where open source TV firmware is a thing, profit motives don't necessarily trump everything else anymore.

Making a firmware that does "nothing" is probably less work than making one that does a lot of things. So even in the new currency (developer time) it might be cheap and make some people happy.

[summm]

Developer time is paid only once. As soon as it is paid, the manufacturer loses out when he is not putting the spyware everywhere he can.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

Well, what it does is reinforce the idea that privacy is a luxury. You can get it ( to an extent ), if you pay enough.