...but we've already been mislead so many times before.

All I know about Volkswagon is they're a car company who deliberately cheated on their emissions tests.

No surprise their demand is falling away due to past outright illegal conduct.

Their license to manufacture a single new unit should have been cancelled the day this was found out. So I don't feel sorry for them.. surprised They did not have a complete shutdown imposed by the government sooner.

EULAs can not legally apply to a minor, just have your neighbor's kid set it up.

If you knew about the EULA, then hazarding to allow the minor to click accept still counts as you accepting it.

Judges are not keen to entertain "workarounds" like the kind you are describing. You can't avoid being deemed to have accepted a EULA by deliberately causing it to be accepted, no matter what method you pick.

I mean if such antics would work in practice; people could just let a cat click randomly; hex edit or NOP out the dialog display function from the executable, or figure out which bit written to disk or flash will bypass the prompt; etc. The concept of a clickwrap license would become a joke.

It's drivers for their AI chips.

they sold it, as most people would to erase their streaming service credentials.

Your appraisal of consumer security awareness is way too optimistic.

Most people would just sell the TV. It's uncommon to seem them also reset to default aside from tested units sold by some secondhand stores that clean up used gear before selling.

Streaming services; assuming an old TV was even used for those; normally detect if a device has gone unused or moves to a different ISP or geolocation and cancel the device token requiring a revalidation. The old TV's reason for being for sale might even be that Netflix, etc, revoked their compatibility with it due to its age or outdatedness.

Anyway. There is never any presumption the seller factory defaulted their TV before selling it.

The manufacturer can log the EULA acceptance, and they will most likely be able to report on exactly the date, time, and IP address when someone clicked Okay. In the case of a dispute; the onus would be on the manufacturer to show evidence that the customer agreed. That is if the customer disputes the alleged fact that a EULA was accepted by them.

Get a new TV and never, EVER let it connect to the network.

Be really really careful. Manufacturers keep coming up with more and more ways to get it just enough internet access to talk to home even if you don't want it too. Hidden cellular modems. New mesh networking protocols like Sidwalk. Bluetooth. Aggressive wifi autoconfig. Ethernet over HDMI. etc

I am pretty sure they all spy on you now if connected to the internet. Some of them may be more obvious about it. Ideally you would get a TV that does not connect to the internet at all, Or turn the feature off, but A. It is almost impossible now, and B. Manufacturers are shady even if you turn the feature off.

You don't configure the WiFi: they will go into a loop searching for any AP they can connect to and grab any internet connection they can get to phone home, if possible; they'll especially try connecting to any unsecured AP that comes by.

It's kind of ridiculous the lengths they will go to; would probably make a good XKCD.

Possibly consider installing WiFi signal-blocking barriers around your TV, and force it to remain connected to a distinct SSID where it gets an IP from DHCP but has zero access to internet and zero access to LAN and other devices.

"You have the right to privacy, so long as whatever you are doing in private does not conflict with my religious ideals in any way whatsoever, such that it would be deemed a sinful act under catholic church published dogma."

"You are legally allowed to do sexual-like things, and in fact mandated to if adult; but only as done 100% in accordance with tradition and how god prescribes word for word in the bible. No toys. No porn. Only 1 human you are married to of the opposite sexes you two were born as that is listed in the original and only first version of your birth certificate."

It's a cool technology; Or it would be if the user could control it.

This thing takes screenshots 50 times a minute and can extract data like text shown on the screen.

It's freakin' cool, and I can think of a thousand neat uses for this if it would be 1. Sent to a local endpoint you configure in the menu. 2. An On-off switch you have to turn on, and off by default of course.

Instead the dumbasses who designed this system make it require an internet connection, and the data feed is sent to some asshole companies in the cloud You never consented to get this kind of data; who also horde the data, and don't provide you any kind of API or way to get realtime access to it, even though they have realtime access to it.

Anyway.. Yes.. I want to write a program that can see text displayed on my Game console or TV (Computer monitor) like ACR can, and under certain circumstances take certain actions based on the OCR'd contents of the text, and the text is typically displayed by something you won't have direct access to. For example: Entering a certain area or taking certain actions in a game automatically triggers certain mood lighting and drops a status message in IRC chat.

(Modded down by "big CO2" apparently.)

That's my point exactly. Your reading comprehension must be low.

Citations are all over the history of Slashdot comments. If you really don't think so you're not paying attention.

*meant to type "politically divisive"

The only thing any individual can do about it that isn't politically and doesn't take a lot of resources is just grow some friggin' plants at home.

...but they hate God. They hate God so much they seem to almost forget that they claim not to believe he even exists. But now they want to build the very thing they hate. The stated motive makes no sense.