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If you search you can find lists of ips ordered by country.
In pihole you can add these lists, so the traffic in and out will be blocked.
I’ll watch thrifted HD-DVDs on my garage sale 9" CRT, thanks!
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I will never knowingly use anything from that scummy shithole.
I take it for granted that they will use it for spying.
Should be boycotted in any country.Privacy is ultimately lost isn’t it?
It’s just a matter of time before actual 1984 level prevention of wrong comments and everyone is going to be listened to all the time.
Whether AI grows quickly or slowly it will just add to it. Those with power will control it and it will reinforce their opinions and silence ours.
make Orwell fiction again
This is why I use a Linux box hooked up to a crt
Feeling really happy that my tv lost internet privileges a while back
I just double checked mine is cut off… it was
Never hurts to double check, I’m envisioning a future where they have sim cards like cars do now.
I maintain that everyone who buys every pice of smart crap tech is a fucking idiot.
Correction, they’re right ignorant, smart, or very smart.
Ignorant: accepts everything, connects tv to internet.
Smart: Blocks Tv from internet.
Very Smart: removes the WiFi chip from the TV. Stuffs the LAN cable with caulk. Boom, subsidized TV.
Genius: creates their own TV OS for their specific TV and deletes the regular OS.
Depends. This year I bought a smart-crap air purifier. It can only be used connected to the manufacturer’s app, connected online.
Except, this smart-crap is powered by an ESP32 system on chip, a very popular development kit amongst DIYers and electronic hobbyists. Some smartass has already created a program to make use off 100% of this air purifier functionalities, connecting only to Home Assistant, completely locally! Unboxed the thing, tear it down, flash the chip, and BOOM ! Turn the smart-crap into a reasonable Home-Automation device. All thanks to the collective efforts of smart, altruistic people.
I am all for people buying all sorts of smart-crap devices if they hack them and share instructions online :D
Oh, link? Me interested
Oh nice, you can even turn off the display lights!
How quiet is the filter?
Hi. Idiot here.
How i am supossed tl watch tv if i pay no subscription and in my country there is no open tv signal?
Thanks for being so smart and helping idiots like me.
I don’t watch TV so that’s a you problem. And you can watch TV on a monitor, its just not as big.
A note on what the partner list proves: Being listed in Bright Data’s config means an integration might have existed at some point. It does not by itself prove that a specific publisher’s currently-shipping app(s) includes the SDK in production. For any named publisher, per-app verification is required.
I’m not sure what this article is claiming is happening? My TV is browsing websites? Why haven’t they proven it? Seems like it would be relatively simple to monitor the web traffic from the TV to see if that’s happening, then they wouldn’t put a disclaimer about it being unproven, Are they asking me to do the verification work for them?
So they turned millions of TVs into a giant VPN? That would actually be kind of cool if they had asked first. I mean, imagine a torrent network like that.
No, they’re saying that it’s technically possible for an Israeli company to have done this. The article says that an SDK exists, but there is no proof that it’s being used in the way they’re speculating about. They’re Just Asking Questions ™. But it’s possible and mentioning an Israeli company makes certain people paranoid similar to how mentioning Warren Buffet makes certain people paranoid.
It’s be relatively simple for security researchers to monitor the traffic from smart TV. But maybe all of the security researchers are working for the Israelis too. Can’t prove that they aren’t all working for the Israelis. Therefore we should just trust in what is implied by this one article that isn’t even showing any network packets from any specific devices.
Just how internet conspiracy theories work. People tend to not question those that are Just Asking Questions so long those implicated in the conspiracy are people they hate.
Yeah I know, I’m just saying if somebody actually accomplished this it would be kind of cool (in a nerdy way but not politically).
So how do we disable/sabotage that feature?
Don’t put your TV on the Internet
One approach per the article:
Approach 1: DNS block (trivial, effective for network-routed devices):
proxyjs.brdtnet.com
proxyjs.luminatinet.com
proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.brdtnet.comNice, they were already blocked on my router
Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?
In the article they have this info under defense approaches.
It’s not blocking a DNS server, it’s using DNS to block their specific servers.
I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.
I’ve had great success with using a PC instead. My TV acts like a glorified monitor. I take an old PC, run Ethernet to it (Wi-Fi if it’s capable) and install Linux mint for the PC’s operating system. Windows works if you have a supported version. But since it’s always an old PC, I just use mint. Then I get a cheapo wireless keyboard, and when I want to watch TV I wake the PC up from hibernation, turn on the TV and speakers, and I can use Firefox with Ublock origin to keep ads and tracking to a minimum.
I couldn’t ever go back to using janky TV apps and being suspicious that it’s watching/listening to me.
Probably a dumb question, but do these devices attempt to reach a specific domain? Can that domain be blocked with something like a PiHole or AdGuardHome?
It’s in the article.
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