Your TV Is Spying On You and Taking Screenshots
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Your Smart TV is spying on you. It’s taking snapshots of everything you watch -- sometimes hundreds per second -- and quietly sending that data to third part...

My question is: Can you block the IPs it’s phoning home to without breaking other TV functions, like OS/app updates, etc? Is there a list of IPs available for smart TVs specifically that keep the fingerprint from being received by the mfg?

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    15 hours ago

    There’s no need. This is a very simple fix. Block your TV from the internet using your router.

    Exactly.

    Then plug in a $20 Google TV box or Apple TV. Problem solved.

    “Sometimes, when I have a problem - I throw a molitov cocktail. Then pretty soon, I have a completely different problem!” - Jason, The Good Place

    (Referring to blocking Samsung’s telemety, by embracing Google’s or Apple’s. Honestly, I trust Apple the most of the three, but I don’t thrive inside a walled garden, myself.)

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      The difference is, if the TV box does something I don’t like, I can unplug it and plug something else in. If the TV does something you don’t like, theres nothing you can do to stop it.

      Case in point, Roku’s forced arbitration nonsense. If your TV was disconnected, there’s no way they can force any changes at all on you.