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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by mrfusion on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:02PM (#25192964)
You can just keep a smart tv off the internet, no?

By a stand-alone Roku for apps?

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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by xodice on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:30AM (#25210962)
Roku's are no better.

The top device on my network being blocked from reaching it's mothership are my Roku devices. This is the top analytics from my NextDNS console for the past two weeks:

scribe.logs.roku.com 417,115

stats.gc.apple.com 24,752

ssl.google-analytics.com 16,178

track.sr.roku.com 7,534

Roku is easily on the top of my list on spying devices on my network. The Apple ones, while still worrying, are on a network with tons of Apple devices between phones, MacBooks, watches, iPads, etc whereas there are three Roku's making all that traffic.

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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by quickthrowman on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:38PM (#25193821)
Roku also sells your data, same with Google and likely Amazon.

Apple TV is what you want if you don’t want to have your data/viewing habits sold to outside companies.

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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by OJFord on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:17PM (#25194113)
... and then to exclusively watch things bought rented from the i/Tunes/Apple Store?

YouTube or Netflix or whatever can still do whatever they want with your 'viewing habits'.

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