OptOutOf

Find out what your devices collect. Then change the settings.

What the devices you use collect, and exactly which settings change it. Every answer has a source. Where we can't find one, it says "unverified" instead of guessing.

It's on the sticker on the back, or in the TV's settings under Support or About.

No cookies. No ads. No affiliate links. Every answer has a source, or says "unverified".

Pick what you want to opt out of

TVsMicrophones, automatic content recognition (ACR), ads in the TV's menus, network features and software updates, model by model. Plus streaming sticks and boxes.15 brands, 230 seriesCars UKRemoving a previous owner from a used car's app, unlinking before you sell, and privacy settings, for the UK's 13 best-selling brands and 9 more.22 brandsHome devicesVideo doorbells and cameras, smart speakers, and Echo and Alexa: sound recording, how long recordings are kept, face recognition and microphone switches. UK smart meter readings. Games consoles, Roblox and robot vacuums. Plus travel: hotel TVs, hire cars, hotel Wi-Fi settings and holiday-let camera rules.6 guidesPhones & AILocation history (Google Maps Timeline, iPhone and Samsung), AI chatbots' training and memory settings, Meta AI, Windows Recall, fitness apps (Strava, Garmin, Fitbit, Apple Health), location sharing in family apps such as Life360, and what to do about an unknown tracker alert.6 guidesAd settingsPhones and accounts: iPhone, Android and Samsung Galaxy, YouTube and Google, Facebook and Instagram, TikTok, Microsoft, and Echo Show with Amazon. A table of which ones let you turn ads off and what the free switch changes, browser settings (Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control, with cookies explained), and the advertising industry's own opt-out tools.8 guidesYour data UK, USGetting off marketing lists and people-search sites: the open register, credit agencies' marketing services, your credit file, preference services, nuisance calls, Companies House, the details of someone who has died, the NHS data opt-out, monitoring at work, and your data protection rights; in the US, California's free delete tool (DROP), people-search sites and data brokers. Anywhere: removing your details from Google Search results, and unlisting your number from Truecaller.16 guides

The site covers the UK and US. Settings menus are often the same elsewhere, but the legal rights pages only apply in the country they name.

TV settings guides by platform and brand: where to turn off ACR and change ad settings. More device types will follow, one at a time and sourced the same way.

How we know

  1. We read the maker's own documents first

    Settings pages, manuals and privacy policies come before reviews or reports.

  2. Each answer names the model it's for

    Every how-to carries the menu path for the specific model or software version it applies to.

  3. No source, no answer

    You'll see "unverified" rather than a guess. Read the full rules, and how to report a correction.