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Re:Smart TV is snooping on you. How to limit the personal da... by randm_sequence on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:06PM (#39887576)
My suggestion is that we should all be streaming bogus ad data to wherever the Smart TVs are trying to transmit our personal information. If we can't stop the TV for monitoring us, we can at least make the data less valuable and even nonsensical.
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Re:Smart TV is snooping on you. How to limit the personal da... by iamdamian on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:36PM (#39887855)
I wonder if there are any projects that facilitate that? Like Pi-Hole but with obfuscation baked in.
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Re:Smart TV is snooping on you. How to limit the personal da... by Phemist on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:05PM (#39888064)
Great idea, in the same vein as the "Ad Nauseam" browser extension, which was the result of an art project by https://rednoise.org/~dhowe/.
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