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It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you (www.theverge.com)

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Crossposted from https://infosec.pub/post/52518361

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

FYI the default blocklist included with PiHole does not block smart TVs. Strongly recommend Perflyst SmartTV List:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I don’t use the default one from pihole, I had to dig around to find the ones that actually did block all the ads and other garbage. But I’ll definitely dig into the link you have provided. Much appreciated, fellow great human being <3

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago*

Make sure to also use the extra RegEx list at https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/regex.list, which helps remove regional LG ad domains among other things.

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But hasn’t been updated since 2023. Oof.

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