Yeah, if you have a smart tv, you’re being spied on.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Yup, a vast portion of my blocked connections on my adguard home setup come from my tv.
If it's a smart TV, she's right, just not for the reasons she thinks. The TV collects data and uses that for advertising. If it has a microphone or camera, that's also a potential vector for attack, but I don't think she's interesting enough to spy on.
Dear lord what a dumbass. You and everyone else carries around the spy device by choice, all day every day. I'm using it to type this comment. You're using it to read this comment. The thing has multiple cameras and microphones and is 100% listening to and watching everything we say or do. It's your phone, if that's not obvious by now.
I mean, she's an idiot but she's not entirely wrong either: Modern TVs try to collect all sorts of data on us, it's why smart TVs are cheaper than commercial displays with no smart features
It's why you can't even buy displays with no smart features
Paranoia is surely a common mental health issue linked to hate-based ideologies