Walked past a TV and it was advertising a security guard. Why does a TV need security software?
Because most people (HN is not a representative sample set) are not willing to pay the real price of a TV if it wouldn't be subsidized by adtech.
Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
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Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#22Has anyone reversed their SDKs to run a swarm that captures enough traffic to see what requests are actually getting made?
Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#23It's not Smart TV apps specifically, it's all free apps. They have to monetize those somehow, don't they? And you get upset when you see ads, don't you?
Basically it's either this or pay for your apps.
Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#24Good. Fuck Cloudflare and other internet gatekeepers. Confuse their signal as much as possible.
Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#25This turned out to be more ethical than I thought. I'd thought there wasn't any consent at all, or the actual mention of proxying was buried in a 20 page EULA.
Yeah, this does seem somewhat reasonable. I get that most users will probably accept it without thinking twice, but if you’re going to do something like this, this is at least a fairly upfront and consenting way of doing it. For the TV platforms where this isn’t allowed, you have to wonder if apps are still doing it but just completely secretly, and trying to hide their tracks as well.
I think the person you were responding to was being sarcastic.
Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#26Has anyone reversed their SDKs to run a swarm that captures enough traffic to see what requests are actually getting made?
It'll be HTTPS but you might be able to know the website, if it proxies DNS or doesn't use ESNI.
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#27Maybe Valve will make a TV next
Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#28It's not Smart TV apps specifically, it's all free apps. They have to monetize those somehow, don't they? And you get upset when you see ads, don't you? Basically it's either this or pay for your apps.
Not sure if this is ironic, but I know it's possible for apps to exist without being monetized. I'm using Paint.net right now.
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#29This needs to be illegal.
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Re: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
#30It's not Smart TV apps specifically, it's all free apps. They have to monetize those somehow, don't they? And you get upset when you see ads, don't you? Basically it's either this or pay for your apps.
I pay for apps whenever possible, in some cases it just isn't. Also, you have to trust that paid apps aren't also doing this shit.