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Posted by tortilla 7 days ago

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch(www.theverge.com)
1257 points | 641 commentspage 3
molind 3 days ago|
After this article I installed AdBlock Home to my HA unit and moved DHCP to it. Filtered LG domains and few thousands others. Apparently LG TV actively uses internet even in switched off state.
a456463 3 days ago|
It's bonkers to say the least and unacceptable.
RataNova 4 days ago||
The China angle will grab headlines, but the more uncomfortable truth is that the entire smart TV ad model seems to depend on surveillance most users never fully understood they were opting into
qwertox 4 days ago||
Sounds like a thing the EU could regulate for us Europeans.

Though I do not understand why this isn't categorizes as illegitimate spying.

a456463 4 days ago||
Do NOT connect a machine you don't have control over to the internet. Every machine these days will spy on you
M95D 4 days ago|
There are no more machines over which we still have control.
a456463 3 days ago||
A plain old linux PC. It can be installed on anything. I do have to give up on HDCP and DRM some times, as mentioned somewhere else in this thread.

But yes, you are right!

lifestyleguru 5 days ago||
Smart TVs turned into computers with monitors and microphones, except the whole computer part is out of our control and they barely work as a monitor.
zkmon 4 days ago||
Did they sue Google for reading all your emails? Or Meta for seeing all your personal history? Or Walmart for determining someone's very personal relationships based on their buying patterns? Or just every salesman out there whose job is to be nosy about customer's life and work?
intothemild 4 days ago||
Reminder. Just don't connect a smart tv to the internet.

Easy fix

demurgos 4 days ago|
What are TV brands/OSes that complain the least when not connected to the internet?
a456463 3 days ago||
My LG and Samsung TVs have never been connected to wifi. They don't complain at all.
mark_l_watson 4 days ago||
Good for Texas. State governments often protect us from the federal government. Many laws that we have now were only passed at the federal level when about 2/3 of states previously passed the same laws (e.g., women's voting rights).
ch2026 4 days ago||
This is the same AG who sued Tylenol over autism. While we can applaud the effort (broken clock theory?), it’s all but guaranteed he’s getting paid for helping another entity. Corruption is on the menu and fully expected these days.
robomartin 4 days ago|
It's about time. They should include Vizio as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VIZIO_Official/search/?q=ads

https://www.reddit.com/r/VIZIO_Official/search/?q=advertisin...

It's amazing to see what they have gotten away with in the last few years. The average consumer has no choice and now way to opt out of the nonsense.

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