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Smart TVs taking snapshots of your screen and phoning home - Is there a list of IP ranges to block? (youtu.be)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My question is: Can you block the IPs it's phoning home to without breaking other TV functions, like OS/app updates, etc? Is there a list of IPs available for smart TVs specifically that keep the fingerprint from being received by the mfg?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The only method of displaying video that I use on my tv is via an hdmi cord connected to a laptop. Ever since they first started shitting out the first tvs with pirated content detection years ago, this has been the only method of displaying content on a tv I use. I make damn sure my tv can't connect to the wifi and doesn't have an ip address at all. Maybe I'm not even going far enough. I haven't checked to see what types of radio signals come out of my tv but its old enough it probably doesn't have any funny business in it. Enshitification must lose. The same way corporations collude together to rob us of every last nickel and dime they can, I want to rob them of every last piece of monetizable personal information they could possibly extract.