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submitted 23 hours ago by iloveyou@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

We recently blacklisted some of the IP’s that our LG tv was sending data to. I can’t believe the sheer number of requests logged in just 1 week! And what’s worse is LG is even denying it now

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[-] voidsignal@lemmy.world 65 points 22 hours ago

rule #1 of connected TV: NO connection

[-] iloveyou@lemmy.zip 12 points 21 hours ago

We screwed the pooch on that one!

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Never too late for a factory reset and a Chromecast.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

You guys are funny to think that any streaming device has any sort of ad capability is not doing the same exact type of thing.

Also this guy thinking that that's a lot of requests being made by a single device in a week period. That's really not that many requests especially when things like ads are being served up on the device or it's got to make a request to be able to pull down updates and different things like that which it does at least ones have not several times a day as well.

C'mon, trading LG for a fucking Chromecast? You kidding right?

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026
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