[jeffk_teh_haxor]

What if the communication is benign? What if the TV is simply refreshing a list of recommendations? Everybody - including this forum - is so primed to read nefarious motives into basically anything a computer can do now. Soon we're not going to be able to write a single "hello world" app w/o having to fill out a ream of EU paperwork and get licensed and bonded in advance.

[partialrecall]

"Recommendations" is just newspeak for advertising. I don't want my TV doing that.

Here is a novel idea: if your shit is so great for users, not contrary to their interests, why don't you ask them to opt-in?

[jeffk_teh_haxor]

Also, what if the TV communicated with its OEM's backends instead, which communicated with malicious third parties behind the scenes?