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.

    • ankanamoon@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      I never stated it as fact, nor was it my attempt to have it come across as one. Just a rumor people have claimed.

      I could have been more clear in that in hindsight.

      • Feyd@programming.dev
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        4 hours ago

        1 person posting on reddit isn’t enough for me to believe they didn’t simply misunderstand what happened. There are a lot of tech-illiterate people out there and if this was a thing I’m pretty sure we’d see people reproducing the results and posting procedures to do so.

        • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          4 hours ago

          Yeah I also don’t think this hold much water, even if the TV automatically connect to the wi-fi, turn the wi-fi feature on/off automatically seems unlikely.