LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps • Hacker News Board

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by JoshTriplett » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:49 AM UTC

saint_yossarian wrote: post #70

jchw wrote: post #40

None of my TVs are connected to the Internet. That said, I could really do with a better open source fullscreen UI, especially since I mainly just want a web browser that works good. I'm just using KDE Plasma with a custom daemon to control the TV power state over an HDMI CEC adapter plus an old K830 keyboard. I'm, frankly, a bit annoyed by this whole thing; I'd rather have USB adapter RF wireless because it is simpl…

K400+ user here, you might be interested in the upcoming Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard.

> integrated touchpad that you don’t hate.

> no mouse buttons

Failed at the first sentence.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by atoav » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:50 AM UTC

LG is on my blacklist. That means I won't buy LG products and in my job actively fight against buying products from them. And they put themselves onto that lost with their behavior.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by JoshTriplett » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:50 AM UTC

nikanj wrote: post #168

hokumguru wrote: post #22

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I mean, some of us have legitimate business needs to get past cloudflares frankly somewhat bs gatekeeping business model, however

To be clear, bot spam and social media manipulation are legitimate business needs for the business selling said services.

You can't have legitimate business needs if you're not a legitimate business in the first place. Ban them all.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by MemoryHoleHQ » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:54 AM UTC

nvme0n1p1 wrote: post #76

jedberg wrote: post #53

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I haven’t looked recently but last I checked Samsung made the best panels. Has that changed recently?

Samsung scored highest on https://www.rtings.com/ for my criteria, and I'm happy with the purchase. I didn't connect it to the network, of course. (I had to stop my handyman from connecting it and he seemed to think I was crazy for insisting.)

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Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by unethical_ban » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:55 AM UTC

0xblinq wrote: post #64

I'm very worried with all this bullshit around TVs. I've been running the same Samsung UE40C6530 since 2010. It's 16 f'ng years and the thing works flawlessly like the first day. No other electronic device in my life worked so well, during so long. But I'm about to move to a new home, and it feels like it's about time to get something more modern, at least a 4k TV. But I'm honestly totally lost at what to buy. I do n…

My Sony tv has never connected to my network and it works great. I use an external device as the source.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by smackeyacky » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

rconti wrote: post #147

Gigachad wrote: post #132

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The LG scandal specifically relies on the fact windows will auto install OEM crapware as soon as you plug it in. No other OS does that.

Huh? What does WebOS have to do with windows?

LG monitors not TVs

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by laughing_man » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 6:59 AM UTC

mc3301 wrote: post #65

declan_roberts wrote: post #31

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My TV thinks it's January 1st 1970.

Every time anything asks for a DOB or anything like that, I enter the earliest date their system allows. Been doing it for decades. I guess that might make me more trackable?

Heh. Steam thinks I'm 126.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by przmk » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

drnick1 wrote: post #120

notatoad wrote: post #68

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reasonably important, if you're never connecting your lg tv to any network, and just connecting it to an AppleTV or something and letting HDMI-CEC control it so you never even see their OS.

I would suggest a mini-PC running Linux and Plasma Bigscreen instead of an AppleTV if you want something 100% private and user-controlled.

Unless you're using streaming services like Netflix, in which case you're stuck with 720p because of widevine.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by Symbiote » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC

prmoustache wrote: post #131

baby_souffle wrote: post #47

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They're not unheard of in cities. Hotels and shopping malls have them. Some residential ISPs will also broadcast a public access point using a slice of each customer's bandwidth allocation...

They all have captive portal for regulatory reasons though.

Depends on the country.

The cafe I live above in Denmark just has an open network.

Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

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Post by petesergeant » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 7:07 AM UTC

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #160

TeMPOraL wrote: post #152

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The monitors aren't installing anything. That headline was a lie. It's Windows Update that's installing LG crapware upon seeing relevant hardware IDs. That's why the problem affected older monitors too - it's the update side that suddenly started to ship malware.

> It's Windows Update that's installing LG crapware upon seeing relevant hardware IDs This is also a misrepresentation. Microsoft has provided LG with a certificate to sign its driver packages with, and allows LG to upload packages to Windows Update, which includes a feature to install sidecar applications. Now, the spirit of this feature is that any application is meant to provide genuine configuration functionality…

> One can't expect that every driver package submission from every vendor is thoroughly vetted every time, this is a matter of trust and respect.

Apple seem to do a pretty decent job of just that