It's absurd, I've blocked outgoing connections for all home devices and appliances by default. The printer and TV were some of the worst culprits.
mmooss 12/19/2025|
How do you watch streaming content? If you choose a movie in Netflix, I expect it makes an outgoing connection to Netflix's servers.
a456463 12/20/2025||
They typically use different dns domain and subdomains or subpaths, because the same server cannot ingest analytics and stream data at the same time. So, keep roku.com but block scribe.roku.com
mmooss 12/20/2025||
I understand that. It would seem to take a lot of experimentation: Netflix has a lot of servers and domains, and at their scale many could be involved in any interaction.
cknives1 12/19/2025||
I just assume everything is spying on me. It doesn’t change my behavior much, but I definitely don’t try to do anything illegal if I can help it.
a456463 12/20/2025|
What is _illegal_? And who defines _illegal_? And would you know when something legal is made _illegal_?
p0w3n3d 12/19/2025||
I wonder why it takes a one state to wake up legally speaking. Why the Federal Government is not speaking about this... Or EU for that matter
kelseyfrog 12/16/2025||
Pro plaintif not only because of privacy concerns, but if it raises the cost of televisions by introducing a production inefficiency, it is one step against the Baumol Effect.
jeffbee 12/18/2025|
Imagine looking around in the year 2025 and concluding that TV prices are high.
xnx 12/18/2025||
It blew my mind when TVs started being cheaper than windows per square inch.
MandieD 12/18/2025|||
I'd never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right, particularly in Germany, by a factor of at least 3-4. 50-55" mid-range TV: plenty under 400 EUR. Double-glazed window about that size, custom-made (because just about all windows in Germany are custom-made): 1200 EUR, and that was about six years ago - I shudder to think what it would be now.
xnx 12/18/2025||
Similar to when solar panels became cheaper than fencing.
sidewndr46 12/19/2025|||
When you consider the differing regulation and applications, it makes a great deal of sense. Just making a window in the US can cost less than $10 if you hand assemble it. Making a window that conforms to all building regulations in your particular area is a huge undertaking that involves highly specialized equipment.
poppafuze 12/23/2025||
They'll introduce a "privacy-class" TV soon enough.
stevenjgarner 12/18/2025||
Did they exclude the makers of video projectors (Epson, BenQ, Optoma, etc) simply because the market segment is too small?
richvos 12/20/2025||
Can you stop this type of activity with DNS blocking or is it just inescapable?
mmooss 12/19/2025||
Why focus on TV makers and not include social media and other computer/phone surveillance?
platevoltage 12/19/2025|
Probably because Ken Paxton has no issue with surveillance.
firesteelrain 12/19/2025||
US needs something like GPDR.
jmward01 12/18/2025|
I've said it before and I will probably say it again, this is digital assault and should be thought of and treated that way. Companies, and their officers, should be treated criminally for things like this. Most people do not know/understand this is happening and that is by design. Is this view a little hyperbolic? Possibly, but the privacy scales are so far tipped against the average person right now that we need more extreme views and actions to start fixing things.