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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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I do what any sane person does. I remove their stupid filter off their line outside of my house and plug it into the back of my TV for free.
They can’t stop the broadcast signal so when they turn off your cable they install the filter in the line. It’s about the size of a d cell battery.
Don’t be rooting around and touching lines or cables if you can’t tell the difference between a coax an rj45 and THHN #6. Two of those are safe and one of those could end your life if it’s live.
It's not encrypted yet?
I mean, OK, our cable provider only started using encryption for all channels this year (also killing off analog cable TV), but still, I thought that was just an exception.
That might have worked decades ago. But with QAM, switched video, and encryption, you will bet very little or nothing without a box or CableCard.