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▲ PSA: Your smart TV is watching everything you watch (example.com)
877 points by tinfoil_but_correct 12 hours ago | hide | 6 comments
never_connected_it 11 hours ago | 127 points | parent | prev | next
This is why I bought a 'dumb' commercial signage display, never connected it to Wi-Fi, and feed it video from a Pi running Kodi through a hardware HDMI filter I built to strip the HDMI-CEC handshake because I don't trust the handshake. Took 6 months. The TV is now perfectly private and also I mostly watch the Pi's boot logs because configuring Kodi broke it.
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just_watches_tv 11 hours ago | 1 points | parent | prev | next
or unplug the ethernet and don't give it the wifi password? takes 0 months?
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never_connected_it 10 hours ago | 34 points | parent | prev | next
Naive. Modern TVs ship with their own cellular modem to phone home even with no Wi-Fi. I read this. I cannot find the article again but I read it. I've wrapped the TV's mainboard in copper mesh to be safe. The picture is worse now but the picture was always a vector.
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just_watches_tv 10 hours ago | 153 points | parent | prev | next
did you confirm your TV has a cellular modem or
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never_connected_it 10 hours ago | 41 points | parent | prev | next
The absence of evidence is exactly what you'd expect if they were hiding it. The copper stays.
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projector_chad 9 hours ago | 93 points | parent | prev | next
I solved this by not owning a TV and instead describing movies to myself from memory. Total privacy. Vizio knows nothing. Neither do I, I've gotten the plots wrong for years.
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