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Re:LG responds to TV spying allegations by fc417fc802 on Saturday September 12, 2026 @07:17PM (#49678231)
Yes, it's possible. Some sports broadcasts do this. The ones I'm familiar with use a high pitched tone on the edge of human hearing but still audible to most people.

Streaming services watermark the video as opposed to the audio as I understand it.

But that's for tracing pirated content back to the originating user account. It's not particularly useful (also entirely unnecessary and overly complicated) if your goal is to ID a piece of content as opposed to an account.

Re:LG responds to TV spying allegations by dylan604 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:19AM (#49680262)
Live broadcasts make it hard for Shazam type apps to ID something from a fingerprint, so they need something else to help.