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All smart TVs—from LG, Samsung, TCL, and other brands—collect personal data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit surveillance. (www.consumerreports.org)

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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.

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago

"Dumb TVs" are extremely rare. You can buy most TVs and just not connect them to the internet and achieve the same thing.

[-] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

This feels like such a waste but if there really aren't any dumb tvs around anymore, oh well

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