Just came here to say that this also affects any applications that use the libwebp library.

That includes many apps that most people don’t think of as “browsers”.

Electron based applications all use chromium under the hood, and are quite common/prolific these days.

https://www.electronjs.org/apps

Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

I have a TCL and it works just fine without internet.

Honestly, if I bought a TV, brought it home and it refused to function without internet I’d march that thing right back to the store for a refund.

Vote with your wallet.

Pretty sure the internet would collapse in a matter of hours.

(Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer)

I hope everyone reading this knows that you can just not connect a “Smart” TV to the internet. Leave it as a “dumb” TV.

Get a separate device like a Roku or AppleTV or Amazon Fire or whatever. The garbage hardware that TV manufacturers slap inside a TV so they can advertise its “smart” features will always be inferior to a purpose built external device.

To say nothing of the security implications of having an unpatched probably unsupported IoT device running on your network for years.

The Duran Duran Tribute album (1997)

Ever notice that this movie is basically the same story as The Three Amigos?

Ha! Came here to say this. Ya beat me to it.

BetterTouchTool (which isn’t free but is worth every penny) lets you do everything rectangle does. Also lets you configure your mouse buttons to do whatever you want. Also infinite custom hot keys and shortcuts.

Also Raycast as a replacement for Spotlight.