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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance”
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48-page report citing Ars Technica urges FTC, FCC investigate connected TV data harvesting. Gen AI, potentially racially discrimniatory practices head concerns.
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    I’ve been using a Chromecast for years. I cast whatever I want from my phone. It plays media and that’s it.

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      I wouldn’t bet on one of the biggest data harvesters not using a smart device to harvest data.

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      The newer Chromecasts won’t even let you use your own DNS.

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        Buy an old used one off ebay or something, then. By the time they go so far out of support they stop working, I’m sure there’ll be a replacement.

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          It wasn’t out of support at the time, and I bought it before they gimped it. Google is actively preventing the use of Pihole or AdGuard by disabling the device if you redirect DNS queries away from their servers to your own.

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            I haven’t experienced this. I have the Chromecast with Google TV dongle and use a DST Nat to redirect all traffic from 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to my own DNS server.

            I also did this with my old Chromecast only from phone version

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              Maybe I should have specifically mentioned that it’s the ultras.

              https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/pmt4cw/chromecast_ultra_just_updated_and_now_wont_work/

              https://xdaforums.com/t/chromecast-ultra-issue-with-custom-dns.4396853/

              https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/custom-dns-group-for-chromecast/50996

              It’s a bit of niche arrangement, so finding out what happened when it suddenly stopped working was a challenge.

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                Gross. Thanks for the sources. Strange that it’s just the ultras.

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