Its an old LG, but given the recent light on the lengths they’ll go to spy on us, I figured this guy was better off without any ability to even connect wirelessly. Don’t know if the Ethernet still works but I plan on keeping my TVs as dumb as possible, HDMI only.
If you’re wondering how to open lg TVs you just have to remove all the screws then start pulling open at the bottom and open the clips going up. With the TV face down on a soft surface just keep pulling on the back case from the bottom, it’ll take some effort to pop open. The top edge folds open more like a hidge than clips.
If you’re using a seperate Chromecast stick in the HDMI port, then yes, LG’s tracking will be disabled if the TV itself has no internet connection.
I would still be extremely wary; HDMI as a spec has the ability to carry Ethernet data.
I wouldn’t put it past the manufacturers from giving it a couple of years for this news cycle to pass from user memory, before trying more nefarious methods to try and exfiltrate data by piggybacking through connected devices like a Chromecast.
That’s mostly because I don’t trust Google to not help facilitate that for a share of the profits and access to the data for AI training.
Essentially no onr implements it.
playstation to sound system to [smarter than i’d like] tv.
i don’t know how much data gets stripped out at the sound system, but i know they started making older sound formats stop working through the optical audio channel for “reasons” (probably to do with tracking) and we had to switch to HDMI. do not get me started.
The receiver takes the audio signal from the Playstation to push it to the speakers then sends the rest to the TV. Make sure the TV is not connected to the internet.