Its been nearly impossible to convince people that their phones aren’t listening to them when in fact, their TVs might be. Wirecutter did a good writeup of all the issues and things TVs do to track you. Plus how you can prevent that (another reason why we just use an Apple TV and disconnect our TV from the internet). It also mentions a GamersNexus investigation takes a look at the shady practices of TV makers which we’ll leave below, some of the stuff is pretty shocking:

This certainly is one way to stop getting your TV to spy on you. The Verge’s John Higgins takes us through why users are doing this and what got us to this point.