Show HN: Disable ACR on Sony Bravia TV's Without Rooting

Category: cli-tool

Tags: privacy, android-tv, adb, debloat, acr

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

bravia-guard is a shell-based toolkit that disables Samba TV ACR and Sony telemetry packages on Sony Bravia Android TVs via ADB, verifies silence by inspecting the device's own socket tables, and optionally re-applies the change on a schedule after firmware updates. It's a narrowly targeted, non-root privacy tool with clear reversibility and honest scope limitations.

Target audience: privacy-conscious smart TV owners and home-lab hobbyists

Repository: https://github.com/joelio/bravia-guard · Shell · Apache-2.0

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