man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.
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man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.
NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.
that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasion -
man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.
NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.
that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasionwe've got one "smart" TV in the house and it's not using its internal smartness, we have it hooked up to a apple TV. but now I gotta go dig in the options and see if I have to turn off "SCREENSHOT ALL OUR CONTENT AND MAIL IT TO A SERVER"
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we've got one "smart" TV in the house and it's not using its internal smartness, we have it hooked up to a apple TV. but now I gotta go dig in the options and see if I have to turn off "SCREENSHOT ALL OUR CONTENT AND MAIL IT TO A SERVER"
here's the page I was linked to (from a tumblr post I've lost track of) on how to turn this off on various TVs:
How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports
TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.
Consumer Reports (www.consumerreports.org)
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