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Re:Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times... by mkl on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:20AM (#41668468)
How would that help? You plug your AppleTV into a smart TV (to be able to use it) and the TV takes tracking snapshots anyway.
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Re:Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times... by vultour on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:42AM (#41668655)
You don't connect your TV to the internet.
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Re:Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times... by mkl on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:09AM (#41668911)
A report of a Samsung TV automatically connecting to a nearby unsecured network: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912135232/https://forum.dev...

Not as common as I thought though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350

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Re:Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times... by Someone1234 on Friday September 27, 2024 @08:07AM (#41669431)
We're linking to a random forum post as "proof?" If this was a widespread problem, we'd know it, but all we get is conspiracies which this is.
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Re:Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times... by mkl on Friday September 27, 2024 @04:19PM (#41675123)
Kind of the opposite. I had heard of it happening, so looked for evidence, and found that HN post asking for evidence, with that random post seemingly the only bit supplied.
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Re:Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times... by rbanffy on Sunday September 29, 2024 @11:00AM (#41687856)
Shouldn't be hard to honeypot your TV into doing that - just set up a network and check if the TV connects to it, or set up sniffing at the gateway and see if there's any traffic that seems unaccounted for (as in not coming from your set-top box and suspiciously large for the periodic software update checks).
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