Apparently many ”smart” TV manufacturers ship proxy SDKs from companies like Bright, and they turn the TVs into nodes in a botnet that is used for ”AI” data scraping, so the traffic comes from all over the place.
I’d guess not many consumers know about it, let alone have the technical know-how to prevent it.
@rytmis @agturcz @alan @jwildeboer omg this is a monetization angle for TVs that is just so obvious when you consider the race to the bottom in that industry
@Profpatsch @agturcz @alan @jwildeboer
Yep. I just read about it some weeks back and immediately tried to look for dumb TVs as an alternative. Of course, they don’t really exist as a product category any more, so the next best thing was to block those things at the router. ☹️