Re:Why I will never buy another Samsung device
by LeoPanthera on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @12:40PM
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You can disable tracking account-wide at 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.
Re:Why I will never buy another Samsung device
by aaaaaaaaata on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:07PM
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Are you sure?
Or are they just not showing you, via your UI, what they're collecting into their data pools anymore?
Re:Why I will never buy another Samsung device
by LeoPanthera on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:53PM
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If you don't trust what companies explicitly say they are doing, then there is no solution that will satisfy you.
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.