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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)

submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

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[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mine doesn't

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

care to share?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most likely offline or firewalled to Hades.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

fair.

genuine question: is it still considered 'smart' if its fully offline? what can it do that a 'normal' tv cant? can it connect to a local media server or something?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Play media from USB or local Plex yes.

Display IP cameras

Really expensive alarm clock

Is an airplane still an airplane if it never flies?

[–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago

Mine's a crt with an hdmi converter. I'm untouchable

[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

VLANed off with no internet. Can only see my Plex server. No other access