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.

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Rule of thumb in open source and honestly even in closed source, the more users there are, the more funding there is, the better the result is. Linux has a ton of like highly niche projects being run by like one guy on his free time with zero funding.

    Even in a worse case I still think the effort is worth it for someone who wants to pull away from the iron clasp of the data overlords where they can. In this life it is rare we get something without giving something in exchange.

    That said now that you know you also gained valuable knowledge and skills you can apply to anything else you want to do. That is it wasn’t like you wasted time completely.