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Multiple users share hardware strategies for disabling TV tracking

4 Nov 1 3:31 PM · 10d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 8

Commenters described practical approaches including physically disconnecting wireless radios from TV motherboards, blocking all network traffic via router firewall rules, using DNS filtering services, and never connecting TVs to the internet. One user reported their Samsung TV generated 90% of blocked network requests over seven days.

“First of all, open the TV and disconnect the wireless radio from the main board, on mine (Samsung) it was just unplugging one cable.”

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