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The insane amount of requests my LG tv has sent since last Friday (lemmy.nz)

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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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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 9 hours ago

Incredible to see them thinking they have any deniability.

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