Your TV Is Spying On You
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of "entertainment."
Your TV Is Spying On You — Ludlow Institute
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.
Ludlow Institute (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:05 zuletzt editiert vonI just don’t own a tv. Getting rid of my entertainment and gaming systems and most of social media was my answer to internal peace. I don’t have streaming either.
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of "entertainment."
Your TV Is Spying On You — Ludlow Institute
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.
Ludlow Institute (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:07 zuletzt editiert vonI guess I'll stick with my 2012 Toshiba 55" dumb TV.
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for streaming, yeah, for tracking its plenty
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:21 zuletzt editiert von100Mbit/s is plenty for streaming even 8k
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of "entertainment."
Your TV Is Spying On You — Ludlow Institute
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.
Ludlow Institute (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:23 zuletzt editiert vonSometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
That's a pretty neat FPS for a tv.
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Look for Signage Displays. They're basically TVs with different software.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:44 zuletzt editiert vonNever heard of those before. Thanks
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The built-in OS on smart TVs almost always sucks. The built-in OS on our LG is slower, has less apps, and has less support for HDR and higher resolutions than our Fire stick.
Just don't use it and instead plug in a Fire stick, turn off its tracking, then sideload apps like BeeTV and HDO Box.
I know Amazon has a bad rep from a privacy standpoint but the Fire stick is super cheap compared to its competition and lets you turn off the tracking in one page of the settings menu.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:59 zuletzt editiert von hootmcgoot@lemm.eeThe article says the TVs still capture input and do recognition from external sources so using an external device is not helping.
Edit: Unless your tv is not connected to the internet.
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Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
That's a pretty neat FPS for a tv.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:04 zuletzt editiert von beveradb@sh.itjust.worksYeah I'm calling bullshit on that quote, I'd like to see proof of any smart TV having beefy enough hardware to record anything at 100fps+, and even then what would be the point? Nothing played back on the screen will even have a frame rate and 60fps... I'm sure this is a lazy article mistake
EDIT: I take it back, I talked it out with Gemini and understand the logic and realistic implementation now, it's a dedicated part of the SoC design. Still hate the fact that this is a thing, we just need to spread the word about not connecting your actual TV to the internet at all ever.
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The article says the TVs still capture input and do recognition from external sources so using an external device is not helping.
Edit: Unless your tv is not connected to the internet.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 01:54 zuletzt editiert vonThe TV can still connect via weave, Amazon sidewalk, or other mesh networks through your neighbors doorbell or thermostat or whatever... Even if you never connect it, it could still report. Have to open it up and destroy the antennas.
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of "entertainment."
Your TV Is Spying On You — Ludlow Institute
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.
Ludlow Institute (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 02:09 zuletzt editiert vonMine ain't, I'm using an ancient dumb TV.
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How old is it ? Which one did you buy
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 02:41 zuletzt editiert von2 1920x1080 LG ones probably over 10 years ago. If smart TVs can't get online they can't spy on you.
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Jokes on them: I watch videos on my tablet. There’s no way that’s spying on me, right? Right?
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 03:26 zuletzt editiert vonNot if your tablet runs an open source operating system without tracking. Like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, which both can be set up entirely without Google services, or sandboxing apps.
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Yeah I'm calling bullshit on that quote, I'd like to see proof of any smart TV having beefy enough hardware to record anything at 100fps+, and even then what would be the point? Nothing played back on the screen will even have a frame rate and 60fps... I'm sure this is a lazy article mistake
EDIT: I take it back, I talked it out with Gemini and understand the logic and realistic implementation now, it's a dedicated part of the SoC design. Still hate the fact that this is a thing, we just need to spread the word about not connecting your actual TV to the internet at all ever.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 04:58 zuletzt editiert vonIf they were recording so much couldnt tv makers be held liable for recording another companies property.
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Mine ain't, I'm using an ancient dumb TV.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 05:03 zuletzt editiert vonI'm not, but I've disconnected the Internet from it. It can try all it wants to send the data to the mother ship.
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Mine ain't, I'm using an ancient dumb TV.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 05:15 zuletzt editiert voneven better we dont use tv anymore, just a PC.
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Mine ain't, I'm using an ancient dumb TV.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 05:16 zuletzt editiert von99% of what we watch is from streaming (Netflix, YouTube, etc). A dumb tv with a Chromecast probably isn't any better.
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I'm not, but I've disconnected the Internet from it. It can try all it wants to send the data to the mother ship.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 05:17 zuletzt editiert vonSoon they may come with cellular capacity. Cars and e-bikes already do.
You gotta Faraday cage it!
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Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
That's a pretty neat FPS for a tv.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 05:35 zuletzt editiert vonThe article states that's what the privacy policy sais samsung can sample every 500ms and LG every 10ms. It doesn't really mean they are, but it's definitely possible. A very basic way of detecting content is to take a 1000 pixels evenly spaced out over the screen and store the color values. That gives you something you can match against a database. You don't need to process a 4K screenshot for this.
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of "entertainment."
Your TV Is Spying On You — Ludlow Institute
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.
Ludlow Institute (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 06:22 zuletzt editiert vonI watch TV through my computer using Jellyfin. Am I at danger?
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I guess I'll stick with my 2012 Toshiba 55" dumb TV.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 11:03 zuletzt editiert vonWe probably have the same model - the one with the big oval stand. Every once in a while I wish it was OLED and/or higher resolution, but it's not worth the expensive or all the modern "features" such as these.
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of "entertainment."
Your TV Is Spying On You — Ludlow Institute
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.
Ludlow Institute (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 11:15 zuletzt editiert vonJust create a black hole network at your house and connect all 'smart' appliances to that. Block all traffic at the router level. This prevents them trying to connect to open mesh networks and also provides the benefit of cataloging all the traffic
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