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by throw10920 1695 days ago
This is what I did for my TV, as well. Unfortunately, they'll eventually do something about it - they'll make pop-ups that appear continually until you sign in, or straight-up disable critical features. Just like jailbreaking, this is just a hack that happens to work for the time being - the only long-term solution is to vote with your wallet, lobby for regulation, or (ideally) both.
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My LG TV wouldn’t upgrade without me consenting to it.
Mine wouldn't even boot out of the box without agreeing to the terms. Saying no would just turn it off.
Yikes, that's extremely bad. (I don't consider being unable to upgrade your TV's firmware to be that bad) Next time, could you drop the model of TV that you got, so that the rest of us can avoid it?
LG C1