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An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping (blog.includesecurity.com)

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[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.