If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?
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Unlikely, because the third-party box probably uploads screenshots or does something equally noxious as well, if not today, then in the not-too-distant future.
I have an TV and I feel like Apple is doing a decent job of trying to prevent selling user data by any means.
I was kinda hoping Apple TV would adopt a more privacy-forward stance. No?
Maybe? Depends on whether some Apple exec ever decides they need the revenue or not. For comparison, even Google's "Don't be evil" reputation only lasted about a decade or so.
Google depends on data to make money while Apple doesn’t. They make their money from the hardware.
Sure, Apple makes most of their money from the hardware, currently. When times get tough for Apple and they're in a situation where they need to look for more revenue (remember the MS bailout back in '97?), well, we'll see...
What makes you think the third party box is any better?
If it’s one you build yourself (e.g. Raspberry Pi with Kodi), it will be.
That's by definition not a third party box any more.
Isn't it third party from the tv vendor? I think that was the implied context. Although If you consider yourself as the vendor who built the device (did you really?) that would be first-party I guess.
If I do banking on my TV via an HTPC I've hooked up, e.g. lots of setups that have a TV as an external monitor, I don't want those being screenshot. TVs are used for a lot more than strictly TV.