Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.

Smart TVs with an internet connection: Lets grab screenshots and send them to cooperate analysis advertisement department.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    11·
    19 hours ago

    I have an LG “Smart” TV, but because I don’t use it much (view the News in the Public TV and little more) I never connected it to the WiFi, so offline this Live Plus is irrelevant for me.

    • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
      17·
      15 hours ago

      Not necessarily. Manufacturers have been known to use ad-hoc networks to find a path back home.

      For example your neighbour gets a smart tv and connects to the internet. Now your smart tv connected to your neighbours and phones home.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 hours ago

        Any TV nowadays is a smart TV, dumb TV are not longer exist since several years, but I don’t think that the TV can connect to the Neighbours WiFi (so smart to crack the passcode, normally long as my arm, my router even with an inbuild Firewall, well…), and even if it is the case, they log the activity of the neighbours WiFi, not mine. There isn’t any network activity in my TV, apart watching 99% Public TV which don’t have ads in most EU countries (because of this, movies in EU public TV are country restricted, I can watch these only in the PC, visiting their homepage using an Proxy with an server of the corresponding country).

        • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
          7·
          8 hours ago

          It’s not connecting to your neighbours wifi. Your neighbours tv can make its own hidden wifi, that your tv can look for. Once your tv connects to the other tv, it could send whatever data it likes through neighbours tv. Since their tv is internet connected it would get back to manufactures servers.

          Now, I haven’t researched this, or have any hard proof of manufactures doing this. But the technology itself would be fairly trivial to implement, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s already happening.

          As others have said, the only sure-fire way to ensure no connection is to remove the wifi chip altogether.

          • Zerush@lemmy.ml
            3·
            7 hours ago

            Well, as said before, with the use I give to the TV, it’s anyway irrelevant for me. Logging the news or an ocassional docu in the public TV? Which ads will they show in channels which don`t have?

          • Prior_Industry@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 hours ago

            I thought that was via other iPhone pinging the tag and reporting its last location back. This sounds like the TV using the other TV as a network bridge and then sending data back via it.