Roku, Amazon, and practically every company in the streaming business are inventing new ways to make money off your data.
    • remotelove
      12·
      15 hours ago

      If you did, the phone-home beacons are super easy to spot and block. Appliance manufacturers don’t think of their products as computers so they don’t bother to hide anything.

      On the flip side, it seems that laptop manufacturers think of their products as appliances, so they don’t even hide their beacons either.

      Spoiler: Acer ties it’s proprietary fan control drivers to"NitroSense" that loves to beacon home with your geo location and serial numbers. If you insert a random python webserver for it to connect to, it will just blurt out its API keys for the Acer CMS. Connecting back to their CMS manually allows you to inject as much shit data into their CMS as you want.

  • adbenitez@lemmy.ml
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Me with a confused face because don’t even have a TV and the webcam of my laptop is covered :v

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    7·
    20 hours ago

    Just like in that cool book where everyone is in a big community and everyone thinks the same and everyone knows that everything is ok, because they have a big brother kindly watching over them.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    73·
    20 hours ago

    Thx for the archive link :)

    Is it possible to escape the ads?

    We have not TV at a home. Smart, or dumb. We got rid of ours decades ago (in the late 90s early 00s) when we realized they expected us to pay good money for a tv set while still expecting us to watch ads, more and more of them, in exchange for meh content.

    We have a computer monitor (the computer itself is running GNU/Linux) on which we watch DVDs, or ripped files. No streaming, no services, no nothing. Most of the time it’s not even connected to our network.

    I suppose one day not that far in the future, corporations will have lobbied our government to make it illegal (and highly suspicious) to not subscribe to streamed content (what can those suspicious people be doing in their free time if they don’t get their daily netfix?), as well as to actually own content. We will see. Meanwhile, they, their crappy ads, and their spywares can all go fuck themselves.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    23·
    18 hours ago

    In Soviet Russia the teevee watches you

    Stupid Americans loves this joke… Look at you now normies 🤡