> Rally they're just doing what we've known for a while [...]

s/we/I

Not 'we' or 'everyone' knew this. The write-up proving such, and a content creator summing it up (if done poorly and you can do better; time to compete?) was worthwhile for a significant amount of people.

> [...] that all TV manufacturers are doing.

Ah, everyone is doing immoral things. Then it is OK. Somehow?!

Some of us remember a past where this wasn't OK. Where not everyone was doing this. I still got a TV from that time.

Tell you the truth, I don't want to even pay the electricity this malware would require to function.