dokeeffe · 11 hours ago

Summary:

- Network traffic patterns were analysed with Wireshark for Samsung/Tizen, LG/webOS, Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, Vizio, VIDAA, external streaming boxes, and a smart monitor

- ACR traffic could usually be identified, and opting out appears to stop it (it is hard to validate this though due to the encrypted nature of the traffic)

- On some TVs, ACR traffic is hard to seperate from other telemetry making it difficult to selectively block

- it's not just for apps - on one TV ACR traffic could be identified with USB playback, home-screen use, and HDMI sources like a PS5 and laptop

- You can avoid connecting your TV to WiFi, but if you use a streaming stick/NVidia shield/Apple TV instead then you still need to entrust your data to another 3rd party company