If you want this feature, NEVER use a smart TV. Especially VIZIO. (Can take screen shots of any screen tied to their network) LG pipes all visual data back to

If you want this feature, NEVER use a smart TV. Especially VIZIO. (Can take screen shots of any screen tied to their network) LG pipes all visual data back to south korea. Philips is just incompetent... So the answer is, decline all TOS agreements, do not ever connect the TV to internet, use HDMI inout from external devices (not USB)... --- And even still, this can't be trusted... But the fact is, that all the externals (the Rokus, Gbits, fire, who cares) -- they are all doing the same tracking. The benefit though is that all the externals ONLY have access (AFAIK at this point) to the stream data/account. In the case of VIZIO, they are actually watching your literal video screen and monitoring the fingerprint of the RGB layout of the image on screen in a grid and comparing it to the DB they build and ingest against their lib... and if they dont recognize it, they can still take offline screenshots and compare those to channels they ingest for content outside of cable streams... Basically at the end of the day, you TV is as much as a source as is anything else... Source.