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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by fulafel on Saturday December 13, 2025 @04:01AM (#46253178)
A rooted piece of trashy IOT is trashy IOT. It's an acquired taste, the excitement of putting a black box insecure linux device on the home network to add to your home infra admin duties.
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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by pessimizer on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:26PM (#46256203)
A rooted computer is the opposite of a black box. This makes no sense.
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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by fulafel on Sunday December 14, 2025 @02:23AM (#46261368)
Rooting gets you additional means to reverse engineer the proprietary software system but doesn't automagically lighten the box.

It's all relative of course, maybe you view anything you can Ghidra as not-black-box. (though this is kind of tangential to rooting - for a many/most devices you can get a hold of the blobs to reverse engineer without rooting anything)

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by olyjohn on Sunday December 14, 2025 @10:15PM (#46270047)
If someone can get access to the TV on your local network, you're already in trouble.
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