If big fancy smart TVs nowadays seem cheaper than they should be, it's because they are.
You are no longer purchasing a TV, you're purchasing a device that will forever yield profits for its manufacturer by scooping up and selling data points about everything you watch in the screen. The money you don't pay to Samsung or Sony for your TV will be paid many times over through telemetry.
The MIT's advice on how to disable aggressive telemetry definitely work. But you can go even further with a an even simpler advice: enable PiHole on your local network and configure it as your default DNS.
Since I did it a couple of years ago, I haven't seen a single ad or sponsored content on my Samsung TV, and all the requests to sewage domains like lcprd1.samsungcloudsolution.net or device-metrics-us-2.amazon.com are diligently redirected to /dev/null.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching
Fabio Manganiello /
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2023-12-12 13:17:40
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