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Regardless of it being how it always was done, such a finger print can easily be injected into LG's advertising ecosystem to infer everything about your demogra
by j45 14d ago
Regardless of it being how it always was done, such a finger print can easily be injected into LG's advertising ecosystem to infer everything about your demographic and what your interests and income might be and hit you with more specialized ads.
What we watch is not OK to be fed ads, especially if I wasn't using their service to being with and its monitoring the audio from any input to do this.
In this way, smart tvs and smart home devices are effectively hostile devices behind your router at home.
- josephg 14d agoYes. It’s also horrible that they have microphones in your home listening to your conversations. LG knowing what I’m watching is awful, but it seems even worse for LG to listen in to the conversation I have with my loved ones about it after. I don’t want to be under surveillance in my own home.
- j45 14d agoBoth are unacceptably egregious and done for zero benefit of the customer and a disproportionate and asymmetric benefit for the manufacturer. I've been trying to learn how to secure LG TVs, and saw that some people do seem to jailbreak them withan open version of webOS.
- josephg 13d ago> I've been trying to learn how to secure LG TVs It’d be wonderful if we had a grapheneos equivalent for tvs. They’re very capable Android devices. Such a pity “we don’t own the glass”.
- lrvick 14d agoThe good news is there is no good reason to plug the TV into the internet.
- dgellow 13d agoTo watch movies from a streaming service?
- allarm 13d agoUse Apple TV for that.
- abenga 13d agoI.e. spend more money to do things the TV can perfectly well do. We should make the spying illegal so we can use the devices we buy to their full potential without being sold to advertisers. "Give money to this other company that may or may not also be collecting data and may also sell you out in the future" is a suboptimal solution.
- drnick1 13d agoIf you want true, verifiable privacy and control, it's not an Apple TV that you need. Any old laptop or desktop computer can be used to stream content from the Internet using a Web browser or other "apps."
- allarm 13d agoE.g. Netflix doesn't let you to stream 4k video in browser afaik. So no, it's not a good option.