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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs

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274 points·by microcode·18 days ago·176 comments

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microcode
·18 days ago·discuss
An Xbox/PlayStation controller is cheap and high quality.
microcode
·18 days ago·discuss
You don't necessarily have to flash a custom firmware. Rooting the TV and killing the ad processes is usually sufficient.
microcode
·18 days ago·discuss
Indeed, many of these TVs serve ads by default on their screensavers and home screens.
microcode
·18 days ago·discuss
The experience with this is so much better. Hacking most Tuya based devices has become extremely easy when you use https://docs.libretiny.eu/ Replacing MyQ with ratgdo was one of the best IoT decisions I have ever made.
microcode
·18 days ago·discuss
The consent screens say that they "may continue running in the background after you close the app".
microcode
·3 months ago·discuss
I am struggling to see how exactly this is even considered piracy. Nobody was going to stream music in low quality off a slow AA server anyway. It's archival.
microcode
·3 months ago·discuss
If you spoof user agent, you will get more captchas because it won't match their other fingerprinting.