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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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[-] ankanamoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

That's why I called it a claim, I never found evidence myself, it just wouldn't surprise me if it was true.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

So you're just spreading misinformation.

[-] ankanamoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 58 minutes ago

I never stated it as fact, nor was it my attempt to have it come across as one. Just a rumor people have claimed.

I could have been more clear in that in hindsight.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

There's claims about this, connecting automatically to open wifi is a "feature" of Android, any smart bullshit based on android can have the same behaviour.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

1 person posting on reddit isn't enough for me to believe they didn't simply misunderstand what happened. There are a lot of tech-illiterate people out there and if this was a thing I'm pretty sure we'd see people reproducing the results and posting procedures to do so.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I also don't think this hold much water, even if the TV automatically connect to the wi-fi, turn the wi-fi feature on/off automatically seems unlikely.

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