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Why Smart TVs Track What You Watch
(www.rtings.com)
why
profit.
Just dont connect the tv to Wifi and problem solved.
How can the general public not understand this?
No WiFi needed.
If you don’t want to click the link I don’t blame you. It’s a LoRA style node based network that the TV or FireStick will connect to if you don’t allow it on WiFi. It’s free to connect to so there’s more incentive for any tv maker to use it.
Wow. The modern world is awful.
Could "We the People" hijack this network to use it in totally normal and completely legal ways and definitely not for operating a peernet-like network
Good question, but the throughput is really low and I’m not exactly sure how the endpoints (or exit nodes, if that’s what they are called) work.
Would be a neat project though, and could add a huge node network to the existing LoRa stuff it it’s compatible.
I wonder if legal to not allow disable in EU.
BUT HOW WATCH YUTUBE?
SBC with Linux,use newpipe
Newpipe is discontinued.
Still works on graphene phone, watched dads army from 1988.
uXDT... Cross devie tracking... Dude come on thats old tracking methods.. Back before the days of smart TVs... Specifically designed to track devices that aren't connected to a network... How can you not understand that...
Data mining.
What is recommended for a TV box?
I have tried google/android TV but the ads are everywhere and I don't trust google not to track everything.
I have tried a raspberry pi running Kodi but it's not very good for anything except jellyfin. I still want to view streaming services on occasion.
My next attempt will be an apple TV but i don't trust apple and despise their walled garden.
I would like something FOSS and optimized for TV viewing. I thought about using a linux OS and using the browser for streaming, but it does not look good from the sofa and requires a keyboard mouse.
So what do you recommend?
Check out tracking methods like uXDT ( old methods.. For cross device tracking before smart tv's..) ... It happens anyway.
I use a 48in LG OLED as a monitor that was pretty cheap for how good it is. Being a monitor it never had an internet connection. So at least I got a good deal (at the expense of others’ data).
I see talk about uXDT on here and no reading material, so here's an article that talks about it and provides ways to help mitigate.
Excellent article.