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Smart TVs taking snapshots of your screen and phoning home - Is there a list of IP ranges to block? (youtu.be)
submitted 1 month ago by Schwim@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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My question is: Can you block the IPs it's phoning home to without breaking other TV functions, like OS/app updates, etc? Is there a list of IPs available for smart TVs specifically that keep the fingerprint from being received by the mfg?

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[-] suzucappo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Haha yeah, I agree.

It's a Toshiba 65C350 Fire TV.

I considered returning it but I'm used to tinkering with stuff so I just dealt with it. I won't do that again though lol. Was not one of the more fun things to mess with.

It'd be nice if I could flash it completely to remove all their junk. I mean, the device is running Android of some sort so it's possible but I'm not that invested in trying to figure that out.

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