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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching
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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Joke aside, would that make it basically anonymous? Unless it's actually sending screenshots, it will only tell "somebody around this IP is watching TV/Something from HDMI"
Well, no. I think there is so much information in there, that the IP address is your least concern.
What personally identification information is there? Sure, they can know everything is from the same user/household, but they can't know it's you by name, email, phone, address... That's what I mean by anonymous instead of private
I guess it is somewhat like paying in cash for your groceries: While anonymous, only you buy at this time of the day your favourite 3 food products, a cup of gluten-free instant ramen and a period product.
I would be concerned about this scenario: