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Sony TVs use Google software, and while Google spies on you too, at least they're honest about it (!), and allow you to turn it off. I also trust Google to hav
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
Sony TVs use Google software, and while Google spies on you too, at least they're honest about it (!), and allow you to turn it off.
I also trust Google to have fewer glaring security issues than Samsung.
- vinay427 5y ago> and allow you to turn it off. Source? On Android with Google Play Services, which almost always applies to Android TV as they’re essentially the same OS, there are no UI toggles to turn off the spying. You can check this using a DNS proxy, for instance, and viewing the log after blocking Google domains using such a proxy might prove quite alarming. Android devices even with location and search tracking disabled contact Google every several minutes.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoYou can disable tracking account-wide at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy - scroll down to the confusingly-named "History settings". If you turn these off, particularly "Web & app history", your TV (and all other Google devices) will obey the settings if it is logged into that Google account. It will still be contacting Google's servers, but it won't be recording anything.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoAre you sure? Or are they just not showing you, via your UI, what they're collecting into their data pools anymore?
- LeoPanthera 5y agoIf you don't trust what companies explicitly say they are doing, then there is no solution that will satisfy you.