Technology

I'm not, but I've disconnected the Internet from it. It can try all it wants to send the data to the mother ship.

even better we dont use tv anymore, just a PC.

Nope

Other than your PC or Mac spying on you, you are in no danger.

The article states that's what the privacy policy sais samsung can sample every 500ms and LG every 10ms. It doesn't really mean they are, but it's definitely possible. A very basic way of detecting content is to take a 1000 pixels evenly spaced out over the screen and store the color values. That gives you something you can match against a database. You don't need to process a 4K screenshot for this.

Yeah I'm calling bullshit on that quote, I'd like to see proof of any smart TV having beefy enough hardware to record anything at 100fps+, and even then what would be the point? Nothing played back on the screen will even have a frame rate and 60fps... I'm sure this is a lazy article mistake

EDIT: I take it back, I talked it out with Gemini and understand the logic and realistic implementation now, it's a dedicated part of the SoC design. Still hate the fact that this is a thing, we just need to spread the word about not connecting your actual TV to the internet at all ever.

https://g.co/gemini/share/e37d7882d427

Some TVs will sneakily connect to open APs to try and phone home. It is nasty but it does happen. You can only be worry free if you yank out the radio module. Some TVs make it easier than others (My LG TV made it as easy as opening the back of the TV and disconnecting, YMMV)

Well, so, about that.

A lot of TV's will form mesh nets with same brand-or even across brands³-, until they find one that is connected. I've even heard reports of one with a sim card¹.

¹in a 'smoke filled room'² ²okay it was a van. A smoke filled van. And she was on some other stuff too.

³OS based i think? So instead of Sony's seeking Sony's or samsungs seeking samsungs, its android tvs or roku's or whatever forming meshes. Don't quote me on that though

My thoughts exactly. My Xbox is spying on me instead.

But think of the corporations! Why isn't anyone thinking of the poor withering corporations?!

We probably have the same model - the one with the big oval stand. Every once in a while I wish it was OLED and/or higher resolution, but it's not worth the expensive or all the modern "features" such as these.

The article says the TVs still capture input and do recognition from external sources so using an external device is not helping.

Edit: Unless your tv is not connected to the internet.

I don't think those two facts are related? Your isp doesn't need to connect to its servers from within your local network to track your internet usage. Something else in your network must be trying to connect to that domain

Not if your tablet runs an open source operating system without tracking. Like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, which both can be set up entirely without Google services, or sandboxing apps.

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.

Look for Signage Displays. They're basically TVs with different software.

Sceptre still makes TVs that are just that, no underlying smart OS

A couple I'm aware of:

• HaGeZi's Samsung Tracker Blocklist
• Perflyst and Dandelion Sprout's Smart-TV Blocklist

But like flightyhobler suggested, if you keep an eye on your DNS logs with Pi-hole or managed services like AdGuard DNS and NextDNS you'll get a better idea of what's still getting through.

Turn the TV on and keep an eye on the logs. Many of the common blocklist already block that kind of telemetry.