Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know

• 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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    • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No! Don’t do this! It creates a parabola that focuses the beams in the center of your brain. The fix is to put a faraday cage around your wifi of course!

      theverge.com/…/wi-fi-router-faraday-cage-electrom…

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