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unglueclass23@programming.dev to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 3 months ago

Why Smart TVs Track What You Watch

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unglueclass23@programming.dev to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 3 months ago
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Why Smart TVs Track What You Watch: And Why It’s So Hard To Stop Them
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We tested ACR tracking on smart TVs and streaming devices to see whether privacy settings worked and how meaningful the consent is.
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    3 months ago

    Just dont connect the tv to Wifi and problem solved.

    How can the general public not understand this?

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      No WiFi needed.

      https://sidewalk.amazon/

      If you don’t want to click the link I don’t blame you. It’s a LoRA style node based network that the TV or FireStick will connect to if you don’t allow it on WiFi. It’s free to connect to so there’s more incentive for any tv maker to use it.

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        3 months ago

        Wow. The modern world is awful.

      • ArsonButCute (Am girl, use girl words pls)@programming.dev
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        Could “We the People” hijack this network to use it in totally normal and completely legal ways and definitely not for operating a peernet-like network

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          Good question, but the throughput is really low and I’m not exactly sure how the endpoints (or exit nodes, if that’s what they are called) work.

          Would be a neat project though, and could add a huge node network to the existing LoRa stuff it it’s compatible.

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        I wonder if legal to not allow disable in EU.

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      3 months ago

      uXDT… Cross devie tracking… Dude come on thats old tracking methods… Back before the days of smart TVs… Specifically designed to track devices that aren’t connected to a network… How can you not understand that…

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      3 months ago

      BUT HOW WATCH YUTUBE?

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        3 months ago

        SBC with Linux,use newpipe

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          Newpipe is discontinued.

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            3 months ago

            Still works on graphene phone, watched dads army from 1988.

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