How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking

Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by gary_0 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:14AM (#46254033)

If it had Ethernet ports I'd be tempted to just use my own wifi router and put the ISP's Trojan horse in a Faraday cage. All ISP-controlled hardware should be treated as just another untrusted WAN hop.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by xg15 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:36AM (#46254126)

When I signed up with them, they were actually trying to withold access to the config web UI from customers and then charge extra just to enable Wifi. My response was exactly that - "fuck that" and put my own router in front of theirs.

(That was years before the other incident - since then they had dropped that idea and "generously" given customers access to the config UI)

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by Gabrys1 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:55AM (#46255459)

These devices usually have detachable antennas, so just unscrew them

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by thfuran on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:32AM (#46255772)

All antennas are detachable. Some can even be reattached.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by xg15 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @01:29PM (#46256730)

"The right tool for the job"

...is sometimes a boltcutter.

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