You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of “entertainment.”

  • pool_spray_098@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I mean… Just don’t hook the TV up to the internet. Don’t join your WiFi network on the TV.

    Kind of a simple solution.

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      5 hours ago

      No it’s not! I had a goddamn Sony tv and it wouldn’t let me change certain settings unless I connected it to the internet! They try to force your hand!

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        2 hours ago

        Do you remember the model number? I would like to research this.

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        2 hours ago

        What about connecting to a mobile/theter and change password after you adjusted your settings? 🤷‍♂️

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      4 hours ago

      You can’t activate the warranty without it. Then once it knows it can go online it will constantly harass you.