Sure, but they do take snaps of the screen and send it to advertisers. Almost all “smart” TVs do this.
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Deiv@lemmy.ca 6 months agoOr just reading the file name on the DVD lol
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
brlemworld@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Only if the DVD player is built into the tv
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And then someone gets the idea to find a way to play a VHS instead and be like “Let’s see you read that, you fucking spying idiots!”
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Sure but this is actually Automatic Content Recognition, specifically Roku’s video ACR that takes snapshots twice a second.