How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports
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TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.

The link has a ton of information.

Under Privacy Settings, there are options for Device Usage Data, Collect App and Over-the-Air Usage, and Interest-Based Ads. All are enabled by default, but you can disable them.

  • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
    81·
    6 hours ago

    People connect them to the internet to use YouTube or something, and then just forget that it is still online. This is for those people who are unaware. And a smart TV can still be hacked while disconnected from Wi-Fi, that is obviously harder to do.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      73·
      6 hours ago

      If those people are unaware, then make them aware. Telling them to disable telemtry instead of taking them offline completely is simply bad advice.

      • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
        51·
        6 hours ago

        Turning off those features still help. That is why I posted, so some are aware… People have smart TV’s to use the internet. That is kind of the whole point of having them. Most people just don’t disconnect their TV from the Wi-Fi every time they are done streaming. Which, that would be a GOOD IDEA idea.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          53·
          6 hours ago

          That is why I posted, so people are aware…

          You’re making them aware of the wrong things, as I just finished saying.

          People have smart TV’s to use the internet

          They can still use the internet without connecting their TV to it. You just plug another device into it.

          • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
            41·
            6 hours ago

            I know what a TV does, smart TV’s enables more features when it is online. Some people just have a smart TV and that is it.

              • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
                41·
                6 hours ago

                Yes they do! People for sure just have smart TV’s, and they have tons of apps when connected online. Load up Netflix and then they are done. Old people especially, do it all the time. That is all they use. That and probably just a phone. Shit, some still have landlines. They live alone and had somebody set it up for them.

                • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                  15·
                  6 hours ago

                  Are my comments just invisible to you? Plug in another device and use it to load up Netflix.

                  • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
                    4·
                    5 hours ago

                    Plug in another device and use it to load up Netflix.

                    You are the one not understanding that every person doesn’t think like you. Some just have a TV and a phone connected to Wi-Fi, that is it. I service houses for IT reasons, I know what I am talking about. I see it all the time.