# Does opting out of TV tracking work?

- Source: The Verge
- Published: 2026-11-04T14:00:00+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1026088/northeastern-university-acr-tracking-study
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/does-opting-out-of-tv-tracking-work-66d36d/

The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out of automatic content recognition (ACR) actually works. While opting out was […]

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