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It's a kind of hackey way of handling this, but what I do is open up the TVs and removing whatever components are required for the WiFi to work. Sometimes you
by tombert 5y ago
It's a kind of hackey way of handling this, but what I do is open up the TVs and removing whatever components are required for the WiFi to work.
Sometimes you can just remove the network card easily, but usually the easiest thing to do is find and break the antenna. It's inelegant, and of course the smart features are still there, but it at least reduces or eliminates the tracking crap.
- MerelyMortal 5y agoI removed the WiFi card from my LG TV before I first turned it on, it's been great since. Apparently some TVs are bad at nagging about missing the hardware, so another suggestion would be to add a load or something to the antenna. I forgot what that's called, and at the time, couldn't really find any details online.
- stan_rogers 5y agoIt's literally called a dummy load - to the 'lectrics, it acts like an antenna, but it doesn't radiate or receive.
- myself248 5y ago"dummy load", specifically "50 ohm dummy load", because that's the standard impedance of most antennae. (Oddly enough, the TV antenna is engineered for a 75-ohm impedance, but that's beside the point.) However, even dummy loads radiate a little bit. It's common to test handheld radios a few feet from each other with dummy loads screwed onto the antenna ports, because when you've got 115dB of link margin and your dummy loads are only eating 50dB on each end, that's still plenty!