TV

We Used To Doomscroll On Cable And It Was Called The TV Guide Channel

Before smartphones trained our thumbs to flick forever, cable taught us to wait. Many of us stood in the glow of Channel 99, eyes on a river of listings that never stopped. That was not just a dumb loop. It was a locally generated electronic program guide, built at your

Mar 09 2026

Why Smart TVs Track You And How To Stop It

Smart TVs have quietly turned our living rooms into rich data sources for advertisers, analytics firms, and platform operators. The glossy promise of effortless streaming masks a machine tuned for tracking: automatic content recognition that fingerprints what’s on screen, telemetry that records which apps you open and for how

Feb 16 2026