Ulrich

Exactly my point.

I don't understand what any of that has to do with what you or I said.

Apple is always silent, because they know they have no justification for their bullshit.

No one thinks Apple, or any other ecosystem for that matter, is completely private. It's just far more private than Android. Primarily because Apple is not an advertising company.

or is the logic that they're giving a discount because they can make the extra money with the data.

Yes that is what I said.

but now it's the norm and they can charge more for it and still make more money selling data.

They still have to compete with all the other TV manufacturers.

I did read and didn't see anything about archiving pages.

is actually cheaper or the "dumb TV" is just overpriced?

I don't know what that means. I don't know how old you are or where you are getting your perspective from but before TVs were "smart" they cost waaaay more. Back in like 2012 I paid ~$2k for a 50" plasma TV. Still have the receipt.

Why wouldn't I just use the bookmark manager in my browser?

This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV

It's not. It's far more valuable. It's a data-mining tool.

Quite the opposite, actually. The "smart" part gives you huge discounts because they expect to make it back on the data they collect.

Lemmy is a text based social media

No it is not. It is a link aggregator. Can be text, can be images, can be video, can be news, etc. etc.

That makes no sense. The problem is not that an extension is tampering with tracker links, it is that it is falsely attributing itself as a sales representative.