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.

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.

    • Synapse@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Where can you buy a non-smart TV ? I searched a lot, there is nowhere to buy such TV for private consumers. I could find some Hotel or Hospital TVs on eBay, they are all expensive and shit specs.

      • CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I bought some cheap “Sceptre” TV on Amazon 4 years ago. You’re not going to be able to walk into a Best Buy or Walmart and find one, that’s for sure.

      • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
        5·
        4 hours ago

        There are several dumb tvs, such as the Samsung BEFX-H series and the LG UN640S. Yes, they are more expensive for the same specs, because they don’t make money with ads and paid services.

        • Synapse@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 hours ago

          These are exactly the kind I was looking at and couldn’t find anywhere to buy as a private consumer, apart from some suspicious eBay listings.

        • Synapse@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I got rid of my old TV that was developing purple spots when I moved to another apartment. I ended up going for a smart LG OLED tv with the specs I was looking for. Available at a good price. It’s not connected to the network and boot straight to my Nvidia shield.

      • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 hours ago

        This is the reason I have a 20+ year old plasma TV. Absolutely nothing smart and still somewhat thin. Also the picture is sometimes better for movies because of how it handles blacks and contrast.

        Burns more electricity I guess. But most plasmas should be around the time of the flat TV crazy started before LED took off. Before they started making them cheaper by stuffing them full of spy software.