alt Hacker NewsI’m paranoid that actually blocking internet access to the TV will result in filling up the TV’s disk with all of this intrusive data they have collected waiting to be uploaded, eventually run out of space and brick the TV. This could be just bad software or actually malicious where they intentionally break something if it loses connectivity for too long and they can see you using it with other connected devices.
We really need normies to care enough about this to the point manufacturers will need to think they need to advertise on their TVs that they are privacy-friendly and don’t collect anything as a selling point. Until then, they don’t really care. I just wish someone like Apple made a TV with their Apple TV functionality baked in that I could trust.
Lot's of people do it and I haven't seen nobody reporting this. Given the miser hardware specs most smartvs have, if this was a problem, it wouldn't take years to fill up the small storage space most of those TVs come with.