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Worth pointing out this isn't any proper Android TV devices, but rather those cheap boxes that are often basically SBCs with AOSP installed on them which are predominantly sold as easy piracy boxes.
Edit: in fact, the article doesn't currently have TV in the title
Leaving out the TV makes it less precise and more clickbaity because then it sounds like Android phones are affected.
I guess the problem is that "Android TV" is a specific thing that none of these devices actually are, they're just dodgy boxes running Android that can be plugged into a TV.
For me it's more clickbaity because Android TV isn't actually involved here at all.
I'd say it would be more clickbaity if you just removed the "TV", because it'd make you think of smartphones, and those would be much more concerning
Yeah I'm not sure what the correct headline is, but at least for me I definitely clicked because I thought it was to do with Android TV, which it wasn't. It was about those cheap boxes that anyone reading Ars already knows are probably filled with malware
Why not just find a different website reporting the story with a better headline? Rather than sharing the one with the headline you fear is misleading?
It's only slightly misleading and Arstechnica writes really good articles. It's pretty much the only news site I regularly browse.
Is there a better article to find?
Can you even get an actual Android TV device now that isn't a Chromecast or an Nvidia shield? Other than a few TVs that mostly come with malware (tcl, Sony, Hisense) I can't think of anything else that has actual Android TV you can buy as a consumer.
Xiaomi makes one, also Walmart carries one called Onn.