LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions
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Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware

LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I have a 2017 era Samsung TV. I use it to connect to a media server that my router runs if I plug in a USB drive. This just worked so I assumed it was an open unauthenticated service.

    Then I tried to use VLC running on my phone to connect and found myself presented with a login screen. When I investigated further I found the router’s media server defaulted to using the the router’s admin credentials.

    So it looks like the TV had been programmed to try common default router creds before showing a login prompt to the user as a “convenience”.

    • magikmw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      That’s good UX, the real fuckup is using default admin credentials om your router.

      • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I wasn’t too concerned previously as my routers are only exposing their services to the local network.

        I understand the view that it’s a superior UX but I was taken aback that it was guessing passwords for other devices on the network.