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You can always just not connect it to the Internet.
Tv reaches some unprotected wifi and there goes your data.
remove the network card
There's no card, the modem is inside the and you have to perform surgery and peel off the panel, because they're super fucking thin there's no unscrew it and grab it from the empty middle part, which will very likely crack it if you're not good and lucky.
Everything, often even the PSU, is now baked onto a single board.
I wasn't planning on it, but, many models try to find open networks to connect to.
I've never seen anyone substantiating that, only rumors.
I gotta figure out where I heard that. I may have conflated different issues with different tech.
Any restablished connection sends telemetry data.