It’s useful to stop ban evasion, but using it for personalised ads or prices should definitely be illegal.

They say it’s to stop scraper bots, but they would have better success replacing a check that can be bypassed by disabling javascript with actual bot detection. Cap looks like a good option and Turnstile is included in Cloudflare.

Have you tried a GDPR request?

Uss the Librewolf browser. You need to turn off reduceFingerprinting and turn on WebGL to make some sites work, but even then if you go to CreepJS you will see that compared to Chrome, there is much less information like battery level, actual core/RAM count, etc for sites to use. And the browser has uBlock Origin to block ads and trackers, although turn off the Quick Fixes list as it might break YT bot protection and shadowban comments.

It’s likely so they can block scraping and DDoSing from people behind a VPN by just banning their account.

It’s horrendously insecure. It can be hacked sliently by a hacker sending a crafted IPv6 packet to it (CVE-2024-38063). You should try Mint on it.

iOS is a walled garden because they do everything they can to block third party app stores, and the “activation” process allows Apple to remotely brick your phone at any time. Immutable Linux distros don’t have these issues.

It protects against system breakage and malware because the core of the OS is sealed and updates can only fully complete or fully fail, you can’t have a half-uodated system like Ubuntu would be if you unplugged the PC half way through.

And because your apps and commandline tools are sandboxed with Flatpak and toolbox/distrobox so malware getting in through one doesn’t compromise the whole system.

You should just get a smart TV which allows setting it up without wi-fi instead.

Plug your own devices in with HDMI.

You should update the Shield. You’ll get security updates and the Pihole will remove ads.

You need to keep the frame rate matching on and motion smoothing off. On an LG you turn “Real Cinema” or “Cinema Screen” on and turn “TruMotion” off. On a Sony, you set “CineMotion” to High and “MotionFlow” on with both sliders set to minimum.

You can make the Samsung even better by turning off the energy saving to make it brighter and turning off the motion smoothing so it doesn’t hallucinate extra frames in 24/25/30 fps video.

If you use the built in smart apps, then 100% YES. However if you leave the Wi-Fi disconnected then plug your own box in then they’re fine. The same applies to most smart TVs, except Roku and Fire models.

Most let you use the HDMI ports and antenna. Only some like Roku models block everything.

People have them because there is no other option. I would love to see a TV version of GrapheneOS with no BS come out some day.

You can get a smart TV and set ut up without Wi-Fi. You can do that on Google TV, Tizen and WebOS. You will have to turn off the eco mode and motion smoothing so it is not dim and blurry.

Get a smart TV which lets you go through set-up without Wi-Fi. Google TV (which is suprising for GOOGLE) models support that.

It could be picture settings. Make sure the Fire stick’s HDR is set to adaptive (it defaults to always on which looks horrible), and on the TV itself the power saving is turned off.

Read this last bit again: "Without Grok providing users with easy access to “undressing” capabilities, his family doubts he ever would have generated the harmful images, which he allegedly trafficked online in trade for “CSAM produced by other child sex predators.” He traded them for CSAM of other girls.