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[belfert]

Any thing posted on the internet is open season,that is why I don't do Google or anything they control,friggn electric meters track you now,plus the smart TV's it's hard to hide from Goggle

I don't think smart TVs require you to connect them to the Internet.  You should be able to hook up just HDMI or other connection to the TV.

[richard5933]

I don't think smart TVs require you to connect them to the Internet.  You should be able to hook up just HDMI or other connection to the TV.

That's how mine work - we only connect them occasionally to update the firmware.

[chessie4905]

You dont have Roku?

[Utahclaimjumper]

Some folks just can't live with out being in everbody's business..>>>D

[benherman1]

Unfortunately unless you are technically savvy it is hard to keep the tracking away. I'm sure some of you have heard this joke somewhere:

"As someone that works in tech my house has no Alexa, Google Home, smart refrigerator, smart tv, or smart locks. I have manual locks, a manual thermostat and my router runs openWrt. I have a printer from 2004 and a shotgun ready in case it makes any funny noises."

Almost all of this is accurate for me. Pretty much any consumer grade gear with a network connection has tracking built in now. Anything I buy that "has to be connected" gets connected for just long enough to get it running then pulled back off the network. I had a roommate buy some "smart lights" he could change the color of from his phone. I found that they were pulling data from my network and uploading it to a remote server every day. They happened to stop working a few days later.