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.

    • Feyd@programming.dev
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      5 小时前

      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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        5 小时前

        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.