“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.”
I hate that this is the technology timeline in which we find ourselves, where pretty much every device is now ‘optimised’ for ads 😒
It is not new, but it does keep getting worse.
See also ‘The Decade of Dishonest Technology’;