How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking

Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by slig on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:37PM (#46251143)

> RootMyTV (v1/v2) has been patched for years, and your TV is almost certainly not vulnerable. We recommend checking whether your TV is rootable with another method.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by montymintypie on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:47PM (#46251195)

The one-click method has been patched, but there are other methods that will work if you haven't been religiously updating your TV:

[0] https://github.com/throwaway96/dejavuln-autoroot

[1] https://github.com/throwaway96/faultmanager-autoroot

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by ashirviskas on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:12PM (#46251351)

Religiously updating my TV? It has been patched since spring, someone clicking by accident "yes" for the update notice that appears randomly on the middle of the screen in the past 9 months would ruin it. I was religously *not* updating my TV and it still got too new software for the exploit :')

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by f001 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:15PM (#46256107)

My tv has never nor will ever touch the internet so problem solved re: updates.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by kelnos on Saturday December 13, 2025 @03:08PM (#46257516)

My LG TV is a little over a year old now and I refuse to allow it to connect to the Internet, ever, so I guess RootMyTV would work fine for me?

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by taxmeifyoucan on Saturday December 13, 2025 @04:10PM (#46258092)

It's totally possible! Check it at https://cani.rootmy.tv/. There are multiple exploits, search around

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by Retr0id on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:06PM (#46251305)

One day I will buy a new TV and develop a new one-click method... but for now I'm still rocking my B9.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by ashirviskas on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:43PM (#46268898)

Oh, hi! Love your work! I'll be rooting for you that day (though most likely after that day, unless you're a superhuman).

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