Hello!

Regarding what Gamers Nexus recently disclosed regarding LG TVs in their latest video I think its finally time to do what I can to mitigate it.

I cant root it since the firmware is too new and I cant afford a new TV either. My best bet would be blocking all LG IPs network-wide and disconnecting it from the network. (Although I understand even that might not be enough, its the best I can do right now)

I was thinking of using an old Raspberry to atleast access youtube and my media server, however I dont know what would be a good OS/distro to run this on. Preferably I would want to use something like an old PS4 controller as the remote.

Anyone here who has any suggestions or living room setups to suggest? Any and all tips are welcome.

  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Not at this scale. Remember that Apple is a hardware company first. They make money from hardware and app stores.

    Google is the worlds largest ad company who dabble in hardware and services to increase their ad revenue.

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      3 hours ago

      They’re still a public company, and Im sure the heat is on their C suite cause they haven’t had any successful hardware releases since the M series processor was first released.

      Not selling “anonymous” data would look to shareholders as thrown away profit, which they’re even able to sue for.

      So I’d be insanely surprised if they weren’t surveiling their users - but unlike google and all, they own their entire closed-source software and hardware empire, so the likelihood of catching them is also valuably low.

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          2 hours ago

          Google’s just using linux for its price, but the GPL of AOSP does a lot of heavy lifting for reverse engineering efforts like this.

          edit: not that that matters at all to apple spying on users - like them scanning all Iclouds openly wasn’t even that long ago