{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:49:19.329Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story_id":50453474,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50453474","total_comments":250,"returned":20,"scope":"Up to the requested number of top-level comments in Hacker News ranked order. Deleted comments are omitted. Nested replies are not fetched; this is not the complete thread.","comments":[{"id":50454718,"author":"throwa356262","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:41:10.000Z","text":"LG: No. ACR in LG TVs does not collect or store screenshots, screen images, screen recordings...\n\nHold on, we already know this is not true. There is even an option in the settings to disable this (which is usually automatically reverted by LG within a week).\nThe setting has the obvious name of \"Live Plus\".","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":8,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454718"},{"id":50454529,"author":"bita_nidir","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:24:48.000Z","text":"Remember, \"no answer\" is still a data point.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454529"},{"id":50453792,"author":"ale42","created_at":"2026-11-11T14:23:41.000Z","text":"https://archive.is/jBJdd","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50453792"},{"id":50454249,"author":"PinkaDunka","created_at":"2026-11-11T14:58:40.000Z","text":"Interesting that in the beginning it says 'We know that many TVs use automatic content recognition (ACR)' but according to answers none of those manufacturers do.\nSo which TVs do the ACRs, and why Verge did not send those questions to them? Hisense?","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":6,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454249"},{"id":50454689,"author":"ourmandave","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:38:53.000Z","text":"Did any of them confirm the myth that the TV attempts to auto connect to any public wifi it can find or comes with a built in 5G modem?","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":4,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454689"},{"id":50455820,"author":"swframe2","created_at":"2026-11-11T17:12:50.000Z","text":"I think it is better to use AI to root the devices, get them to run linux and run an open source media app. The TV manufacturer's default OS is low value.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455820"},{"id":50468890,"author":"dostick","created_at":"2026-11-12T15:23:11.000Z","text":"Misleading article. The most promising- Sony didn't participate. Should have named \"we asked some of manufacturers ...\".","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50468890"},{"id":50460617,"author":"Alive-in-2025","created_at":"2026-11-11T23:40:08.000Z","text":"I unfortunately bought an LG tv a while back. Even if you didn't connect it to wifi, they apparently connect to Comcast/xfinity wifi, which is very common in the world.\nI want to figure out how to disable the connection inside the tv, because I don't trust their software setting. Has anyone described how to do that? Is there an antenna that could be removed, is there wire that can be snipped that would block it from transmitting?\nI know it's a mostly solid state connection.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50460617"},{"id":50454787,"author":"cael450","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:47:26.000Z","text":"Is there any TV I can buy that doesn't spy on me?","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":10,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454787"},{"id":50454370,"author":"MBCook","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:11:29.000Z","text":"I was impressed LG answered every question and quite directly, assuming they’re telling the truth.\nI was quite disappointed in Apple for dodging so many of them and giving non-answers. They need to tone down the corporate speak and take a lesson from LG.\nWhen asked if a user can erase everything the correct answer is not a thesis on privacy, it’s saying “Choosing Erase all settings and data will remove everything on the device back to factory fresh state”. They already have the perfect answer.\nApple has good answers for many of the questions they skipped too. But they look bad by not even trying to answer.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454370"},{"id":50461178,"author":"drnick1","created_at":"2026-11-12T00:30:38.000Z","text":"This video hows how to remove the WiFi module from a TV:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbky8aQS8G0\nThis is what you need to make the TV dumb and ensure it does not connect to open networks.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461178"},{"id":50459895,"author":"hn_submit","created_at":"2026-11-11T22:43:55.000Z","text":"\"Do your TVs transmit any information that could identify the location of their owner, including their public IP address, Wi-Fi network SSID, GPS coordinates, and/or actual street address?\"\nThey forgot to ask about the MAC address. That was the first thing that popped into my mind.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459895"},{"id":50458230,"author":"vander_elst","created_at":"2026-11-11T20:28:04.000Z","text":"> 14. Does disconnecting a TV from the internet prevent all these forms of data transmission?\nI wonder what other possibilities there would be here e.g. via radio or via Bluetooth to your mobile so that such a device can transmit? That would have been an interesting read","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458230"},{"id":50453629,"author":"tupac_speedrap","created_at":"2026-11-11T14:10:12.000Z","text":"The problem is the regulators in the US are in bed with the companies so they can say whatever and do the complete opposite and then get fined a trivial amount of money and just keep doing it","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50453629"},{"id":50455252,"author":"Henchman21","created_at":"2026-11-11T16:28:07.000Z","text":"Almost all these TVs run Android. So where’s the GrapheneOS for TVs?","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455252"},{"id":50455881,"author":"waffletower","created_at":"2026-11-11T17:18:25.000Z","text":"Apple did/does not want to take the Sony/Samsung product diversification path, but it is a shame for them not to branch out more. An actual Apple branded TV under Tim Cook probably would have honestly respected our privacy. I blocked my LG TV's MAC address from accessing our wifi.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455881"},{"id":50456930,"author":"annoyingnoob","created_at":"2026-11-11T18:44:41.000Z","text":"This is part of the plot of 1984, where people willing put these things in their homes.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456930"},{"id":50460756,"author":"EmX_3000","created_at":"2026-11-11T23:52:50.000Z","text":"Cherish your old TVs from the pre-IoT era, things are enshittifying faster than ever before in history.","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50460756"},{"id":50454753,"author":"StevenWaterman","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:44:41.000Z","text":"I want to know what Sony said. Because apparently they responded to the request, but answered 0/17 questions","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454753"},{"id":50454889,"author":"krupan","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:56:12.000Z","text":"It sounds like the best option is to get a TV, never connect it to the Internet, and use a separate Roku device.\nOr go a step further and build your own Linux HTPC.\nOf course if you are already sharing everything about yourself with Google/Amazon/OpenAI/Anthropic then who cares?","parent_id":50453474,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454889"}]}