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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of "entertainment."

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[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it’s my LG TV. But it has its own service that I also block.

Here is the service from xfinity that I’m talking about. It’s relatively new to my network and has increased my blocked percentage by a lot. Mind you, I have 1,900,000+ domains on my blocklist

[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you using isp provided hardware?

My experience with said items has been poor. Literal open doors to your network.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m using my xfinity router/modem in bridge mode to my router.

[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Do whatever you can to remove this from your network as soon as you can. OpenWRT as a suggestion.