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Your Smart TV Is Spying On You - Turn Off ACR in 2 Minutes | Jim | Rewired #Shorts

Rewired with Jim · 2 months ago

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Your smart TV is watching you back. 📺 That set in your living room quietly logs almost everything you watch - using something called ACR, automatic content recognition - then sells or shares that history with advertisers and data brokers, tied to your home. Here's the 2-minute fix. Go into your TV's settings and find the Privacy section, then turn…

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