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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy

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post #96

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Sure, but what can it do without a network?

It can store the data until it connects to one, though that's not going to be as useful for anyone selling it. Real-time auctions are where the money is, from what I understand.

Maybe if it can start colluding with my other devices over HDMI!

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post #99

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But I didn't mention any law? My first sentence is written the way it is, for a reason?

There isn't and shouldn't be such a law. Europe has these KYC for IP address laws and it sucks.

can you explain why? what unintended consequences would such a law have?

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There isn't and shouldn't be such a law. Europe has these KYC for IP address laws and it sucks.

can you explain why? what unintended consequences would such a law have?

It was illegal to offer public WiFi hotspot in Germany until about 2018 because any consequences for its illegal use (up to and including fines for downloading movies and prison for downloading child porn) would automatically fall upon the person to whom the IP address was registered.

Imagine if any time someone was caught driving drunk, the registered owner of the car went to jail.

This was fixed in 2018 by adding a special exception to the law. Other countries had public wifi a decade earlier. Germany still doesn't have much.

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post #107

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Adding to DNS block list immediately.

> Adding to DNS block list immediately. Just making a note here for anyone else with the same thought: I went to ping the domains listed ITT, and nothing went through. I'm running OPNsense and amongst other things using some of the hagezi DNS block lists [0]. It looks like brdtnet.com, bright-sdk.com and various subdomains were already in there, which is a nice sanity check. That said, also worth noting that an Unbou…

Excellent point on allow listing. I feel like I'm moving further and further in that direction - primarily due to the block lists becoming un-manageable in their size / memory needs.

OPNSense is beautifully flexible for this.

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