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LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

cani.rootmy.tv

Edit: corrected. Thanks person below!

[-] anewfox@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

you typo'd the tld, it's cani.rootmy.tv

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Does that site only work for like certain things or..? I put my model number in (a tcl tv) and it comes up that its an invalid model mumber format, but theres no info anywhere to go off, just the text entry bar. Clicking the bit at the bottom just gives info about a specific rooting method no longer working, so that’s not it either.

[-] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Model number and firmware number in xx.xx.xx format. You can get the firmware number from the "Check for updates" menu where you check to see if there are new firmware updates...

BUT DO NOT UPDATE YOUR FIRMWARE!!!

LG is actively patching these exploites.

If you are still having an issue just Google the website or even ask Gemini, it will walk you through finding the information you need.

You go the site on a computer that is on the same LAN as the TV it will ask you to download a python script you then run the python script with your TVs IP address you accept the remote device pairing on the TV and it roots your TV automatically. This alone shuts down a lot of the telemetry LG harvests, but it's also worth setting up a piehole and blocking the full list of urls it phones home too. Lots of stuff if you search the Internet. That's how I figured it all out.