Post #3772487
2025-09-22 21:54 UTC
man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.
NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.
that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasion
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@foone@digipres.club 2025-09-22 21:56
we've got one "smart" TV in the house and it's not using its internal smartness, we have it hooked up to a apple TV. but now I gotta go dig in the options and see if I have to turn off "SCREENSHOT ALL OUR CONTENT AND MAIL IT TO A SERVER"