Yeah, my smart TVs are the noisiest devices on my network, by far. In a day of heavy usage where I’m doomscrolling and constantly scrolling past ads, my phone may log ~2500 blocked requests. My Roku and Samsung TVs both average around 7000 blocked requests per day, even when we haven’t used them at all. That’s a request to their data-harvesting servers getting blocked every ~12 seconds.
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maximumbird@lemmy.world 2 days agoI know it’s not a fix all
But a Pi-hole prevents a lot of this collected data from ever leaving your network to begin with.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If for some reason someone turns on the wifi on my LG tv (I have teenagers and their friends), I have the device itself blacklisted from the network.
But that’s not a reasonable level of granularity for a typical user. We need privacy protection laws to end this sort of behavior from manufacturers.
maximumbird@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Could not possibly agree more.
These companies need to be held accountable.
There are ways to keep yourself somewhat safe for now.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Good luck getting either party to do so with the amount of corporate money thrown their way. :/ You might be able to shout at the Dems to do something but it’ll be a half measure of allowing an opt out system.