this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2026
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They can't really spy on me b/c I don't have it connected to the internet and I'm 99.999% sure that whatever they might discover by spying on me isn't worth the price of a cellular network card and ongoing costs associated with that.
Yeah nah mate they worked that one out years ago. Shit scans for adhoc/unsecured, or uses a low level local mesh until they hit one that does have internet
I believe that's possible but I just don't think it's worth it when 99.9% of normies are going to type in their wifi credentials. You have a source of this actually being implemented?
After turning off the wifi setting on my 2022ish Samsung TV, no attempts to connect to wifi. I don't have a password, but it doesn't appear to have connected to my wifi.
I also live in the woods and there's no neighbor wifi or anything.
That said, before I turned wifi off, the TV was CONSTANTLY sending data to the mothership.
That’s sort of the “I’ve got nothing to hide” argument. They want your data for a reason. It’s valuable to them. It’s like, why have blinds or curtains on your windows if you don’t have something to hide?