Tell us: have you slowed down your smart TV or bought an older model?
We’d like to hear from people who are disabling smart TV features, disconnecting from the internet or choosing older, simpler televisions Smart TVs have become the go-to way to watch entertainment at home and have introduced apps, internet browsing, personalised advertising and even data tracking to our viewing habits. These additional features reportedly slow down smart TVs, prompting guides on how to improve their
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- #1006
- First seen
- 20 Aug 2026, 10:47 UTC
- Last checked
- 21 Aug 2026, 11:19 UTC
- Version history
- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 20 Aug 2026, 10:30 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Guardian community team
- Section
- Television
We’d like to hear from people who are disabling smart TV features, disconnecting from the internet or choosing older, simpler televisions Smart TVs have become the go-to way to watch entertainment at home and have introduced apps, internet browsing, personalised advertising and even data tracking to our viewing habits. These additional features reportedly slow down smart TVs, prompting guides on how to improve their
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Tell us: have you slowed down your smart TV or bought an older model?
We’d like to hear from people who are disabling smart TV features, disconnecting from the internet or choosing older, simpler televisions Smart TVs have become the go-to way to watch entertainment at home and have introduced apps, internet browsing, personalised advertising and even data tracking to our viewing habits. These additional features reportedly slow down smart TVs, prompting guides on how to improve their
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Interpretation layer
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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.
- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
- publisher category Media rss-category
- publisher category Television rss-category
Public response layer
Reception snapshots
Comment counts and samples remain absent until a lawful, source-specific capture method is reviewed. Absence is recorded instead of estimated.
Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #429
- Observed
- 20 Aug 2026, 10:47 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 464,698 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt