Always read the Terms of Service and Privacy policy. I was just upgrading my LG TV to WebOS 13, with a slew of new asks:

- Terms of Service

- Privacy Policy

- ... 6 sub categories of data sharing with third parties.

I unchecked the third party stuff, but I was appalled to see in the LG privacy policy this statement:

LG will not only record what you watch through their WebOS software, but it will also use ACR (Automated Content Recognition) to recognize anything you're playing on the TV even through HDMI inputs.

So even the DVDs or the Chromecast content that you play, gets vacuumed up by the data monster, to sell to the brokers.

I don't care if it's anonymized or not. They have no business collecting what I watch. **It's beyond impolite; it's actually offensive.**

Anyway it's possible to uncheck that box, and the TV still operates. So at least there's that.