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 21. Juni 2025, 20:49 zuletzt editiert vonIn other news, water found to be wet, puppies cute. More at 11.
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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 21. Juni 2025, 21:06 zuletzt editiert vonIt's almost like we should have strong data privacy laws so companies can't spy on everything we do...
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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 21. Juni 2025, 21:10 zuletzt editiert von"in some cases hundreds of snapshots a second" - are you telling me the TV is capturing the media I watch at grandfather's higher than the media itself?
While I have no doubts about TVs sending a ton of data back to the manufacturer, I feel like this article may be written by someone with only surface knowledge of the problem.
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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 21. Juni 2025, 21:24 zuletzt editiert vonSo does your isp, and uses that for targeted ads. My pihole is constantly blocking a domain ran by xfinity that collects data for their targeted ad service
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So does your isp, and uses that for targeted ads. My pihole is constantly blocking a domain ran by xfinity that collects data for their targeted ad service
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 21:47 zuletzt editiert vonWhat domain do I can make sure it's blocked?
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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 21. Juni 2025, 21:51 zuletzt editiert von enkers@sh.itjust.worksIt doesn't if you don't connect it to the internet. Fortunately most smart TVs still have HDMI inputs so you can use them as dumb TVs with a PC.
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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 21. Juni 2025, 21:52 zuletzt editiert vonComms must be infrequent bc my domain sink doesn't log anything like that from my tv when I've checked
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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 21. Juni 2025, 21:58 zuletzt editiert vonoh I disabled my "smart" TV's ability to connect to the internet. its a dumb TV now.
it made the mistake of showing me a banner ad while I was gaming. so I promptly cut its balls off in retaliation.
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It doesn't if you don't connect it to the internet. Fortunately most smart TVs still have HDMI inputs so you can use them as dumb TVs with a PC.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 21:59 zuletzt editiert vonYep. My TV has not and never will be on the Internet in any way. I picked it for its screen quality, and the fact that it also has "smart" components never even entered into the decision. Because those smart components will literally never do anything.
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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 21. Juni 2025, 22:03 zuletzt editiert von justaregularnerd@lemmy.dbzer0.comPart of the reason why I take good care of my little 24" dumb TV. It's on the lower end (poor viewing angles, absolutely no adjustment on the legs) but I still have a use for it, so I won't be replacing it.
The other concern I have with smart TVs is because manufacturers basically install a smartphone SoC, the TV's lifecycle is now the same as a smartphone. Most people probably won't connect a new smart TV box to their discontinued, laggy (thanks to bloated apps) smart TV, the completely functional unit just gets replaced.
We need regulation to be able to unlock these devices and make available the firmware drivers so that after the manufacturer stops support, the community can continue it (and obviously for us hackers, we would strip the system of all telemetry)
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oh I disabled my "smart" TV's ability to connect to the internet. its a dumb TV now.
it made the mistake of showing me a banner ad while I was gaming. so I promptly cut its balls off in retaliation.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:03 zuletzt editiert vonYou can run pihole on Ubuntu.
Point all your network traffic on it and you can still use your TV without your tv using you.
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What domain do I can make sure it's blocked?
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:04 zuletzt editiert vonId also like to know what lists hes using
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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 21. Juni 2025, 22:05 zuletzt editiert vonYOUR tv is spying on you. MY tv has no smart capability.
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Id also like to know what lists hes using
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:06 zuletzt editiert von -
In other news, water found to be wet, puppies cute. More at 11.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:07 zuletzt editiert vonDo you have pictures of these puppies? We need confirmation.
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So does your isp, and uses that for targeted ads. My pihole is constantly blocking a domain ran by xfinity that collects data for their targeted ad service
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:08 zuletzt editiert vonI've really gotta look into pihole.
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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 21. Juni 2025, 22:08 zuletzt editiert vonThe company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?
Huh.
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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 21. Juni 2025, 22:11 zuletzt editiert vonNot mine, since I don't have one
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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 21. Juni 2025, 22:14 zuletzt editiert vonHundreds of snapshots a second? So my tv has at least 200 Hz? Or do they snap the same frame multiple times just for fun?
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So does your isp, and uses that for targeted ads. My pihole is constantly blocking a domain ran by xfinity that collects data for their targeted ad service
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:45 zuletzt editiert vonCan I get some more info. Do you know what device on your network is asking for said address?
Roku: has its own problems, but I dont use the smart tv features and turn them all off especially the wifi. It doesnt talk to my isp and ive never got requests from it.
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