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At which point I hope there will be websites describing how to take the TV apart and disable the 5G modem.

Or somebody will invent a small short-range backhaul-less 5G spoof microcell you can put next to the TV that will confuse the TV's modem into connecting to nothing.

Or just wrap the TV in a Faraday cage. But keeping the screen visible might make that tricky.

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We will just wait for the next Zuckerberg interview to see how he dealt with his smart TV at home. Better to learn from people who really care about their own privacy.

1% of us will take the troubles to protect themselves. We'll even marginally succeed, as long as we don't go out in public or visit a friend's house. Too expensive to circumvent protections if the other 99% have no [time to develop an] understanding of what they are exposed to.

Smart TVs will start including bluetooth sniffing so they'll know how many people are watching and who.

We'll install 5G connected, AI powered cameras and far-field microphones in your TV, to measure the emotional impact of our ads. To offer you a better service [TM].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen

At which point I hope there will be websites describing how to take the TV apart and disable the 5G modem.

There's always been rumours that some Intel vPro CPUs have modems (and entire secondary CPUs..) built in to the chip itself.

Atom x3/x5/x7 processors have a modem in the CPU package.

I imagine disabling the modem without breaking the TV would be impossible.

But a modem won't help if it isn't connected to anything.

On-chip antennas are a thing!

I can imagine myself 10 years from now standing over a $500 chip with a power drill, nervously following a tutorial telling me what exact spot I have to drive the drill head through to disable the antenna without destroying any of the surrounding circuitry...

At that point TV may become a thin sheet of everything integrated in a single piece of electronics. They are already close to it.

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