Comment on Are ISPs responsible for bots having residential IPs or is this a user problem?
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
There was an article here about one of the companies doing this, basically one of the methods is having apps on people’s smart TVs or phones that scrape the web in the background and upload to a control server. So it’s a person’s genuine device in a genuine residence in some cases.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/free-apps-are-quietly-turning-smart-tvs.html
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 days ago Interesting article.
The company’s CEO, Or Lenchner, said a device in its network “is a device whose owner said yes, understood what they were saying yes to, and can say no again at any moment with two steps.”
That’s part of the problem. Most casual users of technology don’t know what they are saying yes to. They just want to do face swaps on sketchy apps. Even as a ‘more aware’ user, I have always considered my phone and TV to be the weakest links in my network.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I remember just recently a post about a “smart” washing machine creating over 3GB of Internet traffic per day.