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If you block your TV's MAC addresses at your firewall, all the intrusive "smart" features stop working. Or have DHCPd map them to static IPs and block those.
by dsr_ 9y ago
If you block your TV's MAC addresses at your firewall, all the intrusive "smart" features stop working.
Or have DHCPd map them to static IPs and block those.
Either way, most people on HN can do this... and most TV purchasers aren't even aware that it's an option.
- Simon_says 9y agoI'm curious why you would need to block MAC addresses. Why wouldn't just not plugging in ethernet and not giving it the WiFi password be sufficient to stop your TV from going online?
- osaariki 9y agoJust a guess: having the TV think it has an internet connection might prevent annoying prompts to connect it to the internet.