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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 16:31:18 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

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   The trend of building surveillance into all new smart TVs is "incredibly invasive and little understood,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @arstechnica. "Nobody wants a snooping and snitching television, but lately that's all you can buy.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/

   • Shadow06 (shadow06@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 16:45:45 UTC Shadow06

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     @eff @arstechnica

     EFF.... Less FUD and more hope please.

   • Dan O'Neill (dkoneill@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 16:49:03 UTC Dan O'Neill

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     @eff @arstechnica perhaps lobby the router industry to incorporate tech that blocks traffic from these devices? Encourage DD-WRT to make ad blocking a first class feature that can be adopted by hardware manufacturers.

   • Erik Johnson (distractal@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 16:59:25 UTC Erik Johnson

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     @eff @arstechnica A small passthrough WAP/wireless bridge/ethernet device that automatically blocklists all traffic except desired streaming services would be HUGE.

   • Joseph Dickson (josephdickson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:54:19 UTC Joseph Dickson

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     @eff @arstechnica ::cringe:: another Idocracy satire moment has become a reality.

     https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOTB1c3l4YWNremd3M3hsd2QweXZoZzJzd3k5NzFka2t2ajg5ODZhMCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l2Sq7mTH8vxqsuiuA/giphy.gif

   • Reay Jespersen (reay@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 19:49:03 UTC Reay Jespersen

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     @eff @arstechnica “Smart” everything seems to be how it’s going. When we did a home reno recently, we went out of our way buy appliances we liked but that weren’t made to connect to the internet.* Had we needed to settle on any, we simply wouldn’t have connected them to our router.

     *This included a “smart” dishwasher. How we ever survived for decades with dishwashing technology that wouldn’t ping your phone with a text that the cycle is done, or whatever, I’ll never know. 🙄

   • CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 22:27:36 UTC CelloMom On Cars

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     This article is about TVs, but now I'm wondering if screen projectors for "home cinema" also spy on you?

   • AJCxZ0 (ajcxz0@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 00:20:17 UTC AJCxZ0

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     Pi-hole users should be sure to include Perflyst lists for your "smart" devices - https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/ - in addition to Firebog Ticked - https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php - and other lists.

     Roku users should also block cloudservices.roku.com to return their home screen to how it should appear.

     #PiHole #Perflyst #Firebog #Roku

   • AJCxZ0 (ajcxz0@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 00:27:03 UTC AJCxZ0

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     When making purchase decisions, understand that the options for a display which supports modern high image quality - panel technology, UHD, HDR - are limited practically exclusively to "smart TVs" and the firmware needs to be updated. Consider connecting only with Ethernet and only for updates, never using the built-in streaming platform, but instead using a cheap but powerful streaming player connected via HDMI.

     Filtering the streaming player will still be necessary, but preferable.

   • Reay Jespersen (reay@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 14:59:09 UTC Reay Jespersen

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     @eff @arstechnica Side note: “Smart” things tend to not have their software update much, often not at all, and the manufacturers are under zero obligation to do so, ever.

     So also so be aware that if you connect any smart device to your home network, it immediately becomes the weakest link in your chain of defence against any cyber attacks.

     I believe it was a casino whose digital network was compromised by a hacker getting into it via a smart thermometer in a fish tank. 🤷♂️