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.

  • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    1 hour 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·
      38 minutes 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·
        19 minutes 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.