Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know

• Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is it worth giving up your data for a bigger screen?

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  • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can just never connect it to the Internet in the first place and only use the HDMI ports. Using a linux media pc running Kodi or whatever. But most people don’t know or care to do this.

    Also the larger state actors have been hijacking televisions as well. However the attack still required an initial network logon.

    consumerreports.org/…/a-closer-look-at-the-tvs-fr…

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What data are you giving up? That you prefer “Better call Saul” to “Breaking Bad”?

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So you have nothing to hide, eh?

      Read more here.

      These tvs, like smartphones, track lots of stuff. And the databases they feed make all sorts of inferences.

      They even scan what you’re watching from other sources and can determine what show it is, and report that info too.

      They know when you’re home and leave, to some extent.

      I’ve read of patents for wifi tech in tvs that will connect to other TVs of the same brand for a connection of you don’t set one up.

      They definitely use their own DNS, and probably have some hard coded IPs so you can’t block them phoning home via DNS (I’ve tested this myself). I can see this traffic even when I setup DNS blocks - they still hit the vendor’s service IPs (looking at you, Samsung).

      These companies are openly antagonistic and adversarial to us, and you “have nothing to hide”?

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, but I heard it is fine once you wear your tinfoil hat while watching it.

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