Posted by microcode 1 day ago
- “Your app should only collect the minimum user data required for providing service and should avoid collecting unnecessary data.”
- “LG performs security reviews on submitted apps before distribution, using the vulnerability analyzing system.”
- “All app developers must complete and submit well-defined and comprehensible data safety information detailing collection, usage, and sharing of user data.” They explicitly classify the "IP address" under Device Identifier Information.
https://webostv.developer.lge.com/develop/guides/privacy-gui...
Blatant lies.
https://webostv.developer.lge.com/develop/getting-started/ap...
> Suspended : The app is suspended in the background.> The app can be suspended for a short time
Short time, short lived, not long running.
That doesn't make it okay obviously, just means the blast radius is limited.
Why does a TV need security software?
Google’s global ad revenue equates to roughly $61 per user per year, most TV manufacturers would be unable to extract that much out per user, even with crazy levels of tracking, ads, etc.
I haven't used a modern TV in a very long time, but I can't imagine LG is extracting over $20 in ad revenue/data revenue per year. It might move the needle on <$500 displays, but when LG displays costing over $5,000 still have this spyware its hard to defend.
70% AI.
The only content not flagged?
Copy and pasted PR comments.
Invisible Unicode characters, triads, unnecessary markdown.
Good work, obviated by bloviating. Readers dropping off near-instantly.
A company leaving a slop trail behind its wake.
AI DDOSing should be shameful.
javascript:(function(){const e=['wheel','mousewheel','DOMMouseScroll','touchmove'];e.forEach(e=>{window.addEventListener(e,function(e){e.stopPropagation()},{capture:true,passive:true})});const t=e=>{if(!e)return;e.style.setProperty('overflow','auto','important');e.style.setProperty('overflow-y','auto','important');e.style.setProperty('overflow-x','visible','important');e.style.setProperty('scroll-behavior','auto','important');e.style.setProperty('position','static','important')};t(document.documentElement);t(document.body);const o=document.createElement('style');o.innerHTML='html, body { overflow: auto !important; overflow-y: auto !important; scroll-behavior: auto !important; position: static !important; height: auto !important; } ::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 12px !important; display: block !important; }';document.head.appendChild(o);})(); "The app goes away. The proxy does not."
"The app is the wrapper. The residential IP is the product."
Headers are very chatgpt style too:
"Why this is dangerous"The information in the article is valid and they've done the work to get the data, but the LLM style is irritating.
Though we've always had our fair share of marketing and growth hack posts this turn with AI is just a different level of frustrating. The dead internet theory is unfortunately very real.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618246
I still do not know how the damned thing got internet.