Technology

Seriously, this is the way. I did this too in about 15 mins. Also setup a simple rule to allow the vlan to reach my homeserver in a separate vlan specifically on Plex and Jellyfin ports. That's it. They cant phone home. You still enjoy your own media.

Did this a few month back. Then my Sony TV decided to hide all apps when it has no internet for a few weeks. I guess when the internal disk is filling up and it needs to phone home again. What a shit show!

So I had to connect again, but now https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu is running, to hopefully never be coerced to go online again.

Jellyfin ftw.

It is illegal. Unfortunately crime is legal for corporations. They just pay the crime fee and can continue undisturbed. Shareholders must be held responsible individually, otherwise it will only get worse.

Or hired by those same agents of authority.

Recording without consent is very much a crime in any single-party state, but my guess is that the TOS that people click past to use the TV gives them permission to record you. If it didn't, they would be in big legal hot water.

Should be. Hope it happens and quickly

Only in trouble if they didn't loop them in on the audio feeds.

EU lobbies won't ever allow it.

In the later years the EU regulations have been massively disappointing. Only favouring big EU companies and destroying little businesses and the european consumers.

Some disappointing eu regulations:

• The cookiesgate. Your data is still going around everywhere. You just have a pop up everywhere that means nothing.

• ¿Replaceable batteries on smartphones? No, only for cheap chinese phones if so. The big players can pay for some european certification on the quality of their batteries and doesn't need to be replaceable.

• ¿Stop killing games? Hahahaha don't ever think about it.

• You are buying too much, we need you poorer. So we put up a 3€ tariffs per ~~category~~ product on chinese stores so you are forced to buy the exact same product to an european retailer at twice the price.

• We heard you like the environment, what about a new complicated tax on packaging so all small business cannot function and only big business are allowed to send products within the european union.

I think the days of the EU legislation saving the day are far off.

Problem us that there are too few tech literate politicians

I have basically every URL our TV automatically pings blocked at this point. It phones home every 10-30 seconds whether they're off or on. I think when we get a new TV we're looking for a dumb TV

I tested this when my LG fridge was new, and got a warning when I left the door open. Quite helpful. But still disabled.

You could try to host your DNS, change the router DNS to that and then spend a while to see to which addresses the TV talk to and block them, it's probably time consuming but if you have that time, it can work

If your television is connected to any network at all its already too late.

Depends on the ROM/OEM.

No.

That said, the whole reason Android exists today is because Google was getting a lot of personal data from Gmail, but when they saw Andy Rubin's invention, they realised they could get a lot more personal data with a phone, so they bought Android from him.

Android collects a lot of data (as that is its primary purpose for Google), but it doesn't upload everything you say. It — or, more accurately, Google Play Services (and possibly other services) do other underhanded things to exfiltrate your data from the device back to Google. Like if you try to use an ad blocker, it will use DNS filtering to tunnel around the ad blocker for its own uses.

The wildest thing is, Google successfully ran an ad campaign convincing people their way was the right way and that Apple's way of doing things was wrong. That's a big part of why Apple is trying to be more like Google. They're certainly not hurting for money, but they see people willingly accepting this sort of thing, so they're realising more and more how much money they're leaving on the table. Imagine if it had gone the other way, if more people rejected Google and its data collecting practices. We'd probably be paying more for some things since we're not (also) the product, but more companies would be putting privacy first. Because that's what the consumers would be demanding. But no, we have people out there, a metric fuck ton of them, saying privacy is negotiable. So, companies are negotiating with privacy — mostly against it.

A soldering iron will do it...