It most definitely is!

Some sources:

https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-advertising-2019-1
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20908128/smart-tv-surveillence-data-collection-home-roku-amazon-fire-princeton-study
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/21/why-tvs-so-cheap-now-your-smart-tv-spying-you-money/2910013002/

Adoption only happens with pioneers

Well said!
Personally I think lemmy managed quite well to keep their politics under soft-wraps so to speak. The “empire” conspiracies rarely end up on front-page. I think of all reddit clones Lemmy has the best chance and it’s nice to see it unfold!

I hope the maintainers find the strength to continue with this and launch federation soon — that’ll be huge for the platform. I really liked Prismo but it never managed to launch federation support, hopefully Lemmy managed to cross this step.

Regarding UX I already wrote few greasemonkey improvements that make it a much better experience. I see few issues on github already but it seems to be low priority so maybe I should make my scripts sharable with other users 🤔

Alternative you can look at this way. The TV price is subsidized by analytics revenue stream however if you’re a tech savy user and have a pi hole (or similar) you get a free discount!

I’m not sure if my grandma really cares that Sony is analyzing the soap operas she’s watching.

spoilers! :|

wow, that’s a pretty huge change. Hopefully they’ll revert this as people are rightfully upset with this.

Is there TL;DR for this? I can’t understand anything from the page.

How does one identify whether a program is used in capitalism or not? This seems like something completely unenforceable and just there as an idea rather than a real thing? Is this some sort of thought exercise?

No, I wish it would though! Sometimes I think of moving to some rainy place like British isles. There’s nothing more cozy than an overcast rainy day and a cup of hot coffee!