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7y ago
Depends on the manufacturer. Some use it to get you to use their other services. Some use it for second screen apps. Others for various on-screen info. Not sure of all use cases. I don't think the data was ever used for targeted tracki
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7y ago
We just provided the technology for major TV manufacturers. Most TVs allow you to disable it, although the feature may be called something unintuitive such as "Live Plus".
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7y ago
I worked on that. It sends audio and/or video fingerprints (not frames, for privacy and bandwidth reasons), which are matched against a fingerprint database. Whatever people see on TV is usually 10 to 60 seconds behind the real live