Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

Clarification: after a bit of research it seems the olfactory section pertains to CCPA California law, many places have olfactory in the privacy policy because it is required by the law. I can’t believe we reached a point where we have to put olfactory in the privacy policy, but then again it won’t be long before Smell-O-Vision becomes reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision

They removed it, archived here: https://archive.ph/YYBuJ

Also have a California ip you get a different privacy policy.

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    my roku TV felt my wrath because it dared to show me a banner ad while I was in the middle of a game.

    i promptly disabled internet on it completely. now it’s a dumb TV. and my life is much better.

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      I want to recommend that you change your WiFi password. Even though you disabled the internet, it may still phone home.

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        oh it’s a relief that we have recently changed it. the bastard roku is completely locked out.

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        Better yet, tear the wifi antenna off the board, can’t connect to wifi without any antenna, no matter how hard you try.

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          Just screen mirroring iirc.

          For reference, I have a Samsung S23, and I use the Smart View function that you can find if you pull down twice the top of the screen and get to the Quick Settings drawer. I think my phone and TV had to be on the same WiFi network at first for the phone to be able to find the TV, but after that I can turn WiFi off on both devices and Smart View still remembers the Roku TV.

          Oddly, after screen mirroring begins and I can see my phone screen on the Roku TV, if I scroll down on the Quick Settings drawer it shows the phone’s WiFi is on, but the symbol next to my signal bars is clearly 4G LTE or 5G and not WiFi.

          Works pretty well unless you have too much ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI) in which case the lag sucks and may even cease the connection. I’ve been using screen mirroring for years though and it’s great.

          Good luck!

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            Yeah it probably becomes WiFi Direct once both find the other. In my experience though the quality is pretty bad, might depend on the devices

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                  no like i’ve been a computer nerd my whole life and went to college for computer science… and i control my own computer, unlike almost everyone else.
                  and at least with a pc you can control it… most people don’t

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                    and at least with a pc you can control it

                    True.

                    most people don’t

                    Also true, and why I was skeptical.
                    Heck, you have people saying they control their computer but Chrome is going around scanning their entire system without them realising it!