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.

Now, It is obvious that putting it completely offline is more safe. But, some people often use the TV’s to watch Netflix or something like that. Then they might forget that it is still connected to the internet when they are done watching.

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
    2·
    21 hours ago

    Oh yea? Tell that over the phone to the old granny that lives alone to do that. People like that have no idea how to. Not everybody is that tech savvy.

    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      Step 1) Host your own DNS resolver(s).

      Step 2) Open port :53

      Step 3) Visit granny and login to her router

      Step 4) ???

      Step 5) Granny Profit

      • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        20 hours ago

        Visit a random granny 1000 miles away for a $100 job lol, sure. Much easier to explain how to reduce data being sent back.