[hanafudafan]

Amazon Sidewalk and dirt cheap 4/5g are appearing in many products including TVs - how do you audit yours to ensure it's not simply going over your head?

[adriancr]

1. If i start seeing ads I will investigate. So it would be painfully obvious whatever they do.

2. When I buy I check reviews and avoid 4/5g or sidewalk.

3. If bought by mistake - return.

4. If left with no choice then:

- I will buy but not accept monitoring

- add automated gdpr request every month for my data and request to delete after.

- see what they return and figure out how it was captured (ex: kill microphone if audio data), sue if anything illegal

Technical wise, play around:

- custom firmware - if tvs get powerful enough to run full linux distributions then I would be very happy.

- desoldering/reusing 4/5g or sidewalk components on my other projects... (free connectivity on sensors on car/bike etc)

- replace board entirely with a raspberry or similar