Safety & securityStan NovakYour Smart TV Is Watching Everything You Do — Turn Off This Setting Immediately

Your Smart TV Is Watching Everything You Do — Turn Off This Setting Immediately

Long-form18:18People & Blogs2.5× channel median

Published Oct 2, 2026, 5:20 PM · 1w ago

Stan Novak
Stan Novak
4K subscribers · median 364 views
Views
922
+0 views/hour
Likes
16
1.7% of views
Comments
2
0.22% of views

Checked every 12 h while the video is this age · last check 7h ago · next in 291 min. YouTube itself updates public counts with a short delay.

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Views / hour now
0
measured 7h ago
Peak views / hour
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Avg views / day
71
since upload
First 24 hours
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not tracked from upload
vs channel median
2.5×
Rank in channel
#7
of 22 tracked
Engagement
1.9%
likes + comments / views
Est. ad revenue
$6–$12
lifetime, $6–13 RPM

Views over time

3 readings · line: total views · bars: views gained per hour

Description

📘 The Repairman's Home Manual — 143 fixes for you https://askstannovak.com Your smart TV is probably tracking what you watch — not just on its own apps, but what plays through it from cable boxes, game consoles, even DVDs. The technology is called Automatic Content Recognition, and it works by taking snapshots of what is on your screen and matching them against a database, then feeding that data to advertisers. Almost every major brand does it, and it is switched on by default. In this video I show you what ACR is, how to tell if your TV has it, and exactly how to turn it off in the settings — step by step, in plain language. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing. #SmartTV #Privacy #ACR
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