A guy bought a $1,500 smart TV 3 years ago.
He plugged it in, sat through setup, and pressed "agree" on every popup without reading a single one. That was his entire relationship with the settings menu.
3 years of watching. Zero picture settings adjusted. Zero privacy settings checked. Zero idea his TV was tracking every single thing he watched — including content from a game console and streaming stick that weren't even made by the TV's manufacturer.
His friend — who spent 6 years as a home theater installer calibrating TVs for a living — sat down on his couch, glanced at the screen for 5 seconds, and said:
"Your TV is watching everything you watch. Literally. And the picture you're seeing right now isn't even close to what this panel can actually do."
Same TV. Same living room. Completely different device once someone actually opened the menu.
He said: "Wait, it's tracking me?"
His friend said: "Every smart TV made in the last 5 years does this by default unless you turn it off. Most people never do, because it's buried three menus deep on purpose."
He changed 10 things in 20 minutes.
The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The tracking stopped. And for the first time in 3 years, the TV was actually his.
Same TV. Same living room. Everything different.
Here's everything hiding in the menu 🧵
It's all fine and dandy that the Trump candidates are winning primaries. The true test is Republicans getting out to vote so they can win the mid-terms.
@catturd2 I shaved my goatee off one time and my wife said, "No, grow it back. I am not going to bed with your father." I've had facial hair for the last 22+ years.
@RapidResponse47@thejointstaff@CENTCOM@SecWar Anyone else wondering if the operation in Venezuela, to get Maduro, was a test run for our military technology before going into Iran?