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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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[-] Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

LG very much tries to connect to random Wifi networks to leak your data, Gamers Nexus talks about it in their recent video.

Here's an arstechnica article if you don't got 2 hrs to spare 😅

Excerpt:

YouTube channel Gamers Nexus worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel, and security researchers to analyze LG TVs’ tracking capabilities. They shared packet captures that pointed to the TVs, including LG’s pricey G5 OLED TV, scanning the LAN for other devices.

“The [G5] crawled our entire network and found dozens of unrelated devices, including smartwatches and phones of our staff who didn’t even know we were working on this,” Steve Burke, Gamers Nexus’ editor-in-chief, said.

LG’s ad business, LG Ad Solutions, has said in recent marketing materials that it can reach 363 million “addressable secondary devices” in the US.

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026

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