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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

• deleted 1mo ago
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• ChrisArchitect 1mo ago
  [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375
  • macintux 1mo ago
    Several discussions this week, some merged, these not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575176
    • ChrisArchitect 1mo ago
      a number of those are Related yes, and/or the original submission that didn't get much discussion, so second submission was it. And this one is a dupe, referencing the source. Same discussion.
    • ChrisArchitect 1mo ago
      > (Normally we'd merge this one thither... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616414
• sroussey 1mo ago
  All smart TVs should be disconnected from the internet. Use an AppleTV or similar.
  • ihsw 1mo ago
    All smart TVs should not come with WiFi or Ethernet controllers.
    • samus 1mo ago
      Then they are not smart TVs anymore. More precisely, they couldn't offer the features one expected from such. Think about a smartphone without internet connection.
  • Cpoll 1mo ago
    Not sufficient, given reports of TVs and other devices automatically creating mesh networks. Your disconnected TV could talk to your neighbour's connected one. If anything, I wonder why LG isn't already doing it. Edit: Getting pushback asking for evidence (fair). Most recently I read it in an HN thread a few years back. I thought it was a TCL TV, but I can't find it anymore. It wasn't Samsung's WiFi Direct, which I don't think was ever on by default. Lacking better evidence, I'll admit I'm probably wrong and no TV has been documented doing this (yet).
    • deadbunny 1mo ago
      Could you link to these reports, the ones with evidence?
      • Arainach 1mo ago
        https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-network-coverage https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-...
        • azernik 1mo ago
          That is an article saying that mesh networking frameworks exist. It does not support the GP claim of smart TVs creating mesh networks across different owners.
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• ortusdux 1mo ago
  I've said it before, but I wish a somewhat trustworthy organization would create a 'DUMB' certification - "Don't Upload My Bits".
• slackfan 1mo ago
  But I was reliably informed this never happens! (Reasons I own an NEC commercial display instead)
  • Jonnax 1mo ago
    By who? Manufacturers have been public about selling viewing data and put it in their user agreements.
  • bradfa 1mo ago
    Which NEC commercial display do you have? How do you like it for normal TV duties? What tradeoffs were you willing to make when you bought it compared to the features which were available in consumer-focused "smart" TVs?
    • slackfan 1mo ago
      MultiSync P495, with the additional daughter card for the RPI CM4. As far as regular TV duties, the CM4 running libreELEC does everything I need and then some. The HDMI-CEC was flaky at one point, but from my research on it regular consumer TVs suffer from the same problem. If anything I'm more limited by the CM4's output, less the display itself. Tradeoffs: I wanted to control my stack with minimal cabling pretty much everything else be damned, and this was a nice integrated solution and a excellent alternative to just buying a 43" dell monitor to hang on my wall. There are probably some image processing "features" that videophiles can comment on, but I've been used to literal decades of LCDs at this point, so an IPS display is going to be just fine(tm). Display lag is a bit higher than I would like for retro video games on it, but that's more an overall LCD problem, less a specific display issue. In functionality it's much closer to a computer monitor than it is to a TV. The menus are obtuse, brutalist even, but if you ever had to work in IT and set up a conference room display you will feel right at home. It's also a heavy pig compared to consumer televisions, right on the edge of what my mount is able to hold, and not really great to wrangle in a position by your lonesome, but not impossible either. As for video: It's more than fine. Maybe the pixels are bigger than my macbook's screen, but at 6+ft viewing distance with my eyesight, I can't tell.
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• ralferoo 1mo ago
  https://archive.is/zmCOd https://archive.is/zmCOd
• Jonnax 1mo ago
  Is there anyone who has done a technical write up and investigation into the firmwares? Like reverse engineering how the software on the TVs work. Also what third parties are involved. I have a feeling there must be some third party vendor selling the same toolkit that manufacturers use. Would be nice to figure out if it's possible to send junk data to the endpoints.
  • johannes1234321 1mo ago
    LG for large parts of the product series use WebOS, which was the OS of the shortlived attempt by Palm to compete in the smartphone market with iPhone, which then changed hands a bit till landing there.
  • AaronM 1mo ago
    Pihole has worked reasonably well upto this point, however the web is catching up, lots of sites that use Admiral refuse to work with piehole running. I suspect it will only be a matter of time before hardware manufacturers wise up and prevent you from using the TV if you block their ad network traffic.
    • no_wizard 1mo ago
      The smart answer would be to figure out the expected payload of the devices and send a dummy one that tricks the TV into thinking its phoned home, I suspect.
  • bahmboo 1mo ago
    Me too. I was hoping for a better write up than a pay walled verge article. Yes I'm being lazy but this is hn and I like technical break downs and not just moral panic. I own an older lg tv and I'm not dismissing the societal issues.
  • d0100 1mo ago
    Gamers Nexus has a 2h video doing reverse engineering and a lot of tests
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• miguel-muniz 1mo ago
  I wish there was some regulation that would force TVs to have a "dumb" mode. When the colors on our previous living room TV started to go out my dad ended up buying a new huge Vizio during black friday for really cheap. He left it to me to set up, since I'm the tech guy of the family, as you all probably understand. I was surprised that the first thing I was prompted to do was to download an app and sign up for an account. The TV would not work unless I was signed in (or at the very least the option was so well hidden I didn't see one). Of course the sign up asks for PII like my name and phone number. Vizio was bought out by Walmart a while back, with the intent of expanding Walmart's advertising empire. It's really unfortunate that the TV market has ended up the way it has. My family still has a few CRTs going that have been working every day for decades, just turn it on and TV immediately starts playing. I miss that level of simplicity.
  • mikestew 1mo ago
    I was surprised that the first thing I was prompted to do was to download an app and sign up for an account. The TV would not work unless I was signed in I missed the part of your comment where you put it back in the box and returned it. (Yeah, I know, understandable reasons. But that's exactly what I would do if it were going in my house.)
    • michaelt 1mo ago
      The problem is for TV manufacturers to change their ways, a lot of TVs will need to be returned. And your average Smart TV buyer is prepared to sign into Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Youtube etc - that's the whole point of buying a smart TV. The only returns will be from the minority who are happy to sign up and sign in for streaming services, but who balk at one more account. Personally, I'm about to return a smart TV (because it sucks) and replace it with a dumb screen. But realistically - I don't imagine these things get returned in sufficient numbers for vendors to change their ways.
      • forgotmypw17 1mo ago
        It starts with one.
• designerarvid 1mo ago
  Is there some way to jailbreak your tv and run som open source os on it? Or something like that? Not exactly sure what I’m after, but the problem is acute and widely prevalent, so there has to be some solution.
  • cassianoleal 1mo ago
    You can root most LG TVs but I'm not sure an alternative firmware exists or if it's even feasible. https://cani.rootmy.tv/ https://cani.rootmy.tv/
    • urbandw311er 1mo ago
      Ahh that’s great - been waiting for something that works with my firmware for my LG TV (a C1). Any idea, once rooted, what commands I can run just to disable all the ads, bloatware and spyware?
      • cassianoleal 1mo ago
        No idea unfortunately. I had good success at blocking ads just via DNS (Pi-Hole or equivalent), but I have no idea if it does anything for the spyware.
  • abeyer 1mo ago
    https://forum.level1techs.com/t/lg-tv-block-mini-how-to/255178 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/lg-tv-block-mini-how-to/2551...
  • Ajedi32 1mo ago
    My understanding is that this is difficult due to DRMd content refusing to work with Free operating systems. Because yes, this nonsense would never fly in a world where Software Freedom enabled a competitive market for TV operating systems.
  • yonatan8070 1mo ago
    Probably just never give it internet access and plug in an HTPC with some form of Linux (I've heard KDE's Plasma Bigscreen is better than ever, though I haven't tried it myself)
• dathery 1mo ago
  > In July this year, the channel flagged that some LG monitors were automatically installing an app that collected device data and ran pop-up ads for LG’s other apps and even McAfee antivirus. The public pressure from that video prompted an intervention from Microsoft, and ultimately led to LG disabling the pop-up ads. Can anyone explain why Windows even makes this possible? I had to fight against Windows installing Alienware command center nonsense automatically because I have a "gaming" Dell OLED. Windows automatically fetched and installed it just from plugging in the monitor, adding a new system tray icon and persistent daemon with these kinds of annoying pop-ups and probably a bunch of security vulnerabilities. It's completely incomprehensible to me. The monitor works great without it, on both Windows and Linux! I left a negative review on an otherwise good monitor as a result, but Microsoft shouldn't even be entertaining this crap.
  • kyralis 1mo ago
    The intention is to allow for automatic installation of software that is actually needed for the function of the peripheral - think proprietary cameras or non-standard printers/IO/etc. It's not a bad goal, but it leads to manufacturers abusing it, unsurprisingly, for things that are not, in fact, necessary.
    • account42 1mo ago
      The question is specifically for monitors, for which this would have to be implemented separately because the discovery is different. At most a monitor should be associated with an automatic ICC profile.
  • tredre3 1mo ago
    > Can anyone explain why Windows even makes this possible? Because, as much as we nerds might hate it, it's convenient to a large number of people. They plug in their device and the companion software to fully use all its features just installs itself. They don't have to go to some obscure URL and then locate their exact product. Even in the case you've described, the software likely enables some features of your monitor that aren't accessible otherwise. You don't care about them, but someone might.
• hn_submit 1mo ago
  The Koreans are taking a huge risk destroying the trust they've built over the last 30 years with this incessant spying and adware. Both LG and Samsung are engaged in this and it could open the door to Chinese rivals like TCL and HiVision. Not because they're much better but because discoveries like these will leave a bad taste in people's mouth whenever they want to buy a new TV. They need to put a stop to this or they'll start losing market share fast. Can this spying and tracking be so lucrative that they'll risk alienating their customers over it?
  • jonplackett 1mo ago
    How is this not a gigantic fine from the EU for some kind of GDPR reason
    • qwytw 1mo ago
      Because it's technically opt-in. And AFAIK the the checkbox is more explicit in Europe and they probably do a bit ore to comply with GDPR. US is a free for all mostly when it comes to abusing consumers through contrived and unfair ToS agreements.
      • ishtanbul 1mo ago
        in the US. My LG TV has put up a giant TOS agreement thing and I can't use any apps until I agree. So I unplugged the ethernet cable and bought an Apple TV. problem solved?
        • microtonal 1mo ago
          For now. I wouldn't surprised that if enough people start doing this, they'll just put a cheap cellular modem in the TV. Or find open access points. Or make a deal with Amazon and others to exfiltrate information via a smart home speaker/assistant. Technical solutions only go so far, at some point you have to put in place a regulatory framework that requires consent. The divergences between US-EU privacy policies, configuration screens, etc. show that the GDPR is slowly starting to do its work.
• soupbowl 1mo ago
  Are the WiFi cards on these TV like laptops or soldered on. I wonder if you can atleast disconnect the antenna or remove WiFi chip.
  • mikestew 1mo ago
    Why? Just don't connect it to the internet. (Yeah, yeah, when someone actually demos a TV seeking open WiFi APs, then we'll talk. And anyone bringing up ETH over HDMI gets a spankin'.)
    • hinkley 1mo ago
      XFinity has some bullshit where your router provides an AP for other XFinity members. My understanding is that it uses bandwidth you aren't paying for to carry this signal rather than using up what you paid for, but still it's been there for something going on ten years.
      • jghn 1mo ago
        That was the moment I bought my own cable modem instead of using theirs.
        • hinkley 1mo ago
          I was about to switch carriers anyway, that was the kick in the butt I needed to make the call and schedule an appointment. Some parts of these organizations are aware that some of their rent comes from inertia. Other parts don't realize that they are providing the impulse to overcome that inertia.
      • mikestew 1mo ago
        So don't give it your Xfinity creds? My understanding is that Xfinity doesn't let just anyone connect to that network.
        • hinkley 1mo ago
• jzer0cool 1mo ago
  Hardware switches would be plus in modern era. Not just for mics.
• Cort3z 1mo ago
  Ohh my this website is terrible on mobile
• hermitdev 1mo ago
  I don't mean to be dismissive, but isn't this old news? Hasn't it been the case that _all_ "smart" TVs have been spying on users since they came out? I've personally operated as if they are: my TV is not connected to the internet. At least, not through my internet connection. It's not on my wifi, nor is it connected to my LAN.
  • Cort3z 1mo ago
    This is straight up dystopian level spying. Streaming microphone inputs all the time, knowing everything that is displayed on the screens via object recognition and stuff. Scraping your local network. If I’m not mistaken there is the possibility for the tv to connect to public/open networks to send this stuff without you knowing. Magically syncing with your phone. It’s truly terrible, and a class action is all but guaranteed to come. Gamers nexus has a great video on this.
    • ranger_danger 1mo ago
      This is a known feature that is not hidden which is not automatically turned on by default. You must set your TV to a different standby mode and enable LG voice control. When you do this, it very plainly tells you that it can listen with the screen off so you can control the TV with voice. Failure of User Awareness, not some nefarious spyware.
      • mitxela 1mo ago
        No, you're not up to date with the latest news. There's a separate feature that records you all the time, transcribes it to text and uses it to select ads for you
        • ranger_danger 1mo ago
          Do you have a source for this claim?
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• apt-apt-apt-apt 1mo ago
  What's the incentive for these manufacturers to do this? Are they getting paid for the data (e.g. we'll pay you $100M to install spyware), or are they trying to be an ad platform, or is it simply analytics gone out of control?
  • autoexec 1mo ago
    They get to make money off of you for the rest of your life. They'll sell ads to companies, and they'll sell your data to anyone willing to pay enough for it.
    • apt-apt-apt-apt 1mo ago
      Unfortunately, considering that 80-90% of people simply don't think or care about this, I can see the incentive.
      • autoexec 1mo ago
        I think that people just don't know about it. When directly confronted with it they react pretty strongly. Companies have done a very good job of hiding what they're doing from the public. They know people aren't going to read their 15,000 word EULA written in deceptively phrased legalese, and they wouldn't understand it if they read it anyway. Most Americans can't even read at a 6th grade level. People just have no idea what's being collected or what's being done with their data. If really you want to see how people feel about being surveilled there's plenty of videos online showing people freaking out at someone just taking photos/video in public. A ton of people are absolutely convinced that the law protects them from being recorded in public. They're not going to imagine that a "respectable" corporation would be allowed to do it to them in their own homes.
  • josefresco 1mo ago
    Because they make higher margins on their ad business, details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
• system2 1mo ago
  This is the reason why I allow certain mac addresses to communicate outside of my house. SonicWall makes it easy.
  • happyopossum 1mo ago
    These TVs will connect to any open wifi and upload your data - your firewall only works for your network.
  • thesuitonym 1mo ago
    > SonicWall makes it easy. This might be the first time I've ever seen anyone say something even slightly positive about SonicWall.
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• dnw 1mo ago
  I need a Brother for TVs.
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  • account42 1mo ago
    FYI, Brother has also started enshittifying their printers so don't skip the research the next time you buy.
    • dnw 1mo ago
      Oh no! Thanks for the heads up!
• jboggan 1mo ago
  Reminder that smart TV ids are part of California's DROP platform, and that you can (and should) request that all registered data brokers delete data associated with your television.
• angelomichel_nl 1mo ago
  Posted on a website where you can't read without subscribing... just like the video man! LG might be after money, but theverge is just the same lol.
  • squeegmeister 1mo ago
    Paywalls are how you run a business without ads/spyware. These are not remotely the same
• CMay 1mo ago
  Does this mean that TVs can never be recycled or resold now, adding to the garbage problem? All you have to do is sell the TV to someone who does eventually connect it to the internet and it will upload all the data it acquired while the previous owner had it?
• mtalantikite 1mo ago
  As someone who has never owned a TV and doesn’t know about this space, are there any TV manufacturers that are just a basic screen anymore?
  • tomxor 1mo ago
    Not really (I've looked pretty thoroughly), but I've been looking into large format gaming monitors like the 48" Asus OLED PG48UQ [0] which are essentially dumb TV panels. I haven't finished researching yet but happy to discover this category of monitor is a thing now, with close enough to the latest display tech at reasonable prices. I've never owned a TV either and I keep getting stuck trying to buy one because they are all so horrible. These are essentially huge TV panels, with basic TV features like a remote control for the OSD. I guess because it's what gamers want... A TV scale monitor for use as a TV without all the smart TV bits which ruin games. There are also a bunch of "Smart Monitors" in this category to be ware, including from LG. The work is in distinguishing the true large format dumb monitors from the smart TVs in disguise. [0] https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/asus-rog-swift-oled-pg48uq https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/asus-rog-swift-oled-p...
    • account42 1mo ago
      A lot of TVs can still be used as a dumb display if you simply ignore all their other useless "smart" functionality. If anything, "large format gaming monitors" are a response to that usage from the monitor industry wanting to get back some of those customers.
      • tomxor 29d ago
        Yes, that used to be the way. But it's getting increasingly hard to ignore their smart functionality and be comfortable enough simply leaving it "unnetworked". The problem is the incentives, even though TVs represent a higher turnover for LGE (roughly $1 B), they barely break even, whereas most of the 0.5 B from their advertising division (made through the TVs) is majority profit. They don't want you to use their TVs as monitors (they lose money that way), they are highly incentivised to find a way to track you. This is not unique to LG but they seem the worse affected while having the largest chunk of the market. I feel a lot more comfortable with a monitor controller attached to the same OLED panel rather than trying to figure out if i've neutered LGs ad department enough, or worrying about it somehow independently gaining network in the future after monitoring everything in isolation as proven in this latest news. I think LG tvs doing something like automatic exfil via their own mesh network in future is not far fetched, it's practical with their market share and they have the incentives.
• BrandoElFollito 1mo ago
  I doubt they are doing this in the EU. One GDPR request and they would be in a lot of trouble.
  • ianpenney 1mo ago
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• bigbuppo 1mo ago
  These weaponized TVs are a threat to both national and international security.
• alistairSH 1mo ago
  I'm confused, the article claims the TVs are uploading data when offline? That's is literally impossible. Are they using a different definition of offline from normal people?
  • shae 1mo ago
    The original article from Gamers Nexus says they upload saved audio when an internet connection is restored.
• extralongdivisi 1mo ago
  More reason to stick with my monitor and Kodi.
• woodgala 1mo ago
  The fact they they can connect to Xfinity networks without consent is shocking too. For all those “just don’t connect the cable” responses, it still connects! And what happens when they go GSM? Sure you can try to open up the box and yank the WiFi antenna… until it is so deeply integrated into the board that you cannot. This isn’t just an “oh well” situation. This needs a law.
  • krunck 1mo ago
    This needs people to open their TVs, determine the modifications needed to neuter the spy functionality, and publish the procedure.
    • red-iron-pine 1mo ago
      as the parent poster said, that works until they bury it so hard that you can't find it, or that it can't be removed without impacting service. all LG needs to do is put the connection inline to something important like responding to your remote control or changing channels. rip it out and it won't work anymore. LG then curses you for voiding the warranty and tells you go to go hell when you complain. it needs a law.
  • sgerenser 1mo ago
    The article says that? I searched for Xfinity and nothing came up.
    • woodgala 1mo ago
      Watch the original video posted yesterday.
      • sgerenser 1mo ago
        I went and checked out the section of the video where he talks about XFinityWifi networks [1]. Literally nothing was tested, he just said “there are reports of devices (not TVs, just “devices”) connecting to XFinityWifi open networks… so even just not letting TVs connect to your WiFI won’t keep you safe!” That’s it!? Why not actually test it!? [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA&ra=m https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA&ra=m
• washadjeffmad 1mo ago
  We shouldn't need to, but the wifi PCB module in LG OLED TVs is typically attached by a ribbon cable that can be easily disconnected. The Magic Remote can also be replaced with dumb IR model without a microphone.
• throwup238 1mo ago
  Called it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520903
• necovek 1mo ago
  I'll just throw this out here: https://www.webosbrew.org/rooting/ https://www.webosbrew.org/rooting/ I believe I did have to connect it to the network to get it to some web page or other, but after that I had full control of it. My LG TV is a bit older, though (2021 or so).
• ksajadi 1mo ago
  To me this is where the EU MEPs should place their privacy concerns. Unless it ends up being another consent pop up on TVs.
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• dang 1mo ago
  There have been quite a few submissions on this topic. The biggest one is: 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375 - Sept 2026 (971 comments so far) (Normally we'd merge this one thither but it's already so big maybe we'll just treat it as a follow-up)
  • pseudohadamard 1mo ago
    The weird thing is that this pretty huge story has essentially zero visibility to the public until now since it's only been covered in tech media. I wonder how long it'll take for general-public media to wake up to it to warn the masses?
    • dang 1mo ago
      Yes and secondarily weird is why there was a flurry of these all at once. I mean it's probably just the usual group dynamics but it would be interesting to know what precipitated it, and why now.
      • pseudohadamard 1mo ago
        In terms of mass media coverage, if this really is the bingo-card GDPR violation it appears to be then the fines for LG will be... staggering, as in corporate-survival-level staggering, which means they'll be fighting it tooth and nail every step of the way. So you'd want to be really, really sure about what you're saying about them before you run it on the front page.
      • WithinReason 29d ago
        Wasn't it the Gamer's Nexus video? That has a huge audience.
        • dang 29d ago
          Ah, that would explain it.
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• tomsi 1mo ago
  Just unplugged mine and set up a fire stick
• jareklupinski 1mo ago
  this basically vindicates everyone who has a streaming account _and_ feels like everything they say "suddenly pops up in an online ad the next day"
  • mitxela 1mo ago
    Yep, we were looking in the wrong place the whole time, it wasn't the phones.
• ebbi 1mo ago
  I'm in the market for a good TV to pair with my PS5 Pro for GTA6. What brand does not do scummy things like this, or that I can easily avoid by not requiring me to download an app to set up?
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