C.Dec 12, 2023

> Depending on the [smart TV] platform, turning off [Automated Content Recognition, i.e. spyware]
> took us between 10 and 37 clicks.

37 clicks! And you thought MS Edge was difficult to shut up.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching

#adware #spyware #privacy #tv #spying #OptOut

Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching – The Markup

Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching

Show threadHardWiredDec 13, 2023
@cazabon These smart TVs are such a scam. You really have to dig around now to find a #TV that isn’t a #surveillance machine. Most people don’t seem to know or don’t care that these things are listening to us, etc. I might have to buy a big monitor next time my old TV dies to protect my #privacy.
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@hardwired

I will never, ever connect my TV to the internet. If it has no network access, it can't phone home.

When the manufacturers start shipping them with builtin LTE modems and no way to disable them, then it's pitchforks-and-torches time.

#AngryMob #pitchfork #torch

Dec 13, 2023 at 3:22amWeb