• IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Idk how we fix it.

    Simple. Don’t buy a TCL television. If you do have one, or any other brand of “smart” TV then for gods sake do NOT connect it to the internet.

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      And even then, there have been smart TVs caught sniffing for same brand devices and open networks to connect to the web.

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          Samsung did it, there was a Reddit thread where one users TV used a neighbours open WiFi to connect automatically

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          I’m only getting trash results now but there was an entire discussion on one of lemmys communities about tech safety and privacy and one user went into a lot of detail and provided articles on it.

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      I bought a Philips one. Turned off WiFi cause my mom doesn’t use streaming much, and to get rid of those effing “accept cookies?” pop-ups. Every once in a while it suggests to connect to the network. 😑😑