How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports
www.consumerreports.org
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.

  • LeapSecond@lemmy.zip
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Dumb tvs are still sold in some places. If it’s impossible to get a dumb TV and have a pc, at that point it makes more sense to get a simple monitor and use the pc as the smart device so you actually have full control. The android boxes you connect to tvs are not the epitome of privacy either.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      “Dumb TVs” are extremely rare. You can buy most TVs and just not connect them to the internet and achieve the same thing.

    • mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      4 hours ago

      This is true. Almost every streaming box sells your data out of the box. Roku is one of the worst. Nvidia Shield is pretty bad too.