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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by zzt123 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @08:25PM (#29222536)
How would you spot that one? It would appear to them to be traffic coming from their TV, and you wouldn't see anything on your own net. Unless that's similar to how hotspotting works, where the TTL is different.

Also, isn't wifi sharing how many products work these days, such as various find my phone features and Amazon devices?

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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by reacharavindh on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:39AM (#29225861)
A simple Wifi scanner would give you a list of wifi signals around you. So, if a TV is surreptitiously creating a wifi hot spot, it would be on that list and someone would have spotted it by now... I have some digging to do this weekend.
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