It’s all because TV manufacturers looked at that screen in the center of your house, where you spend hours a day, and saw only dollar signs. So they cynically turned “Smart TV” into a platform for unwelcome data collection and intrusive, inappropriate advertising. Somewhere in there, they also forgot to actually make something we’d want to use.
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