Talk:LG Television sale of personal data

Does the opt-out genuinely work?

I've just bought a B5 OLED from LG as the cheapest possible OLED option new, locally. Found my way to the opt-out before anything else, ensured live plus was off, etc. but even then still did not connect it to my home network. That is, until I found a solid advertising/tracking URL blocklist to add to my router to ensure that any attempts to continue phoning home are blocked. However, after setting that list up and finally connecting it (by ethernet or wifi) the TV continues to insist it is offline and prevents access of ANY online features. This is immediately suspect to me, as the only endpoints blocked were for advertising and tracking. If it truly was not attempting to do so after the opt out, access to those URLs should not even be attempted, let alone required before the TV will acknowledge an internet connection. I have the necessary hardware to run it through a switch before my router to run wireshark in-between and see exactly where it's trying to communicate, but that will require cutting another 50ft line of cat5e, so before I do that I was curious if anyone else has, and what the results were.

Additionally, I've heard WebOS has a developer mode that can enable sideloading and possibly jailbreaking. Has anyone gone through the effort of modding the OS such that it no longer includes personal data sale features, and from there compared the communications it sends out to both an unmodified and opted-out version? 65.182.79.52 05:42, 5 January 2026 (UTC)