I'm against undisclosed proxies, but I would pick pay-by-residential-proxy over pay-by-ads every time.
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
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Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
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Another win for the Linux security model (software installed and updated manually from vetted repos only).
most of my machines use unnatended-upgrades Increasingly software is distributed by "curl dodgysite.com/get.sh|sudo bash -", no different to running "install.exe" on windows Surely Windows Update is a vetted repo as much as arch or debian
> Increasingly software is distributed by "curl dodgysite.com/get.sh|sudo bash -"
I don't think this is the norm at all. I have seen curl/bash install scripts for tools like Claude Code, but they don't use sudo, and the expectation is that you deploy them in isolated user accounts or containers.
Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
#363They just straight up ask people to be a proxy? And people say yes? SMH...
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I don't buy a TV every 2 years, that's absurd. If I buy a TV, it better work for > 10 years.
You are attacking a straw man instead of answering the question.
They were second hand, idk. They were already burned when they arrived. Suffices for me to say I don't have much confidence in OLED.
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3 out of 4 OLED screens in my household suffer from burned pixels. It's the early 90s all over again with OLED.
You know your phone is OLED right? I'm assuming you left a still image on without the inbuilt screen refresher enabled or something? I remember seeing that way back in the early OLED days but not on good TVs in the last 8~ years.
Yes, that's what bothers me. OLED was the newfangled improved technology, but I'd rather hold out until something better becomes affordable.
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Exactly. If you get the best today it'll be the second best tomorrow anyway. Absolute position is undetectable, you can only perceive change. Use that to your advantage and stay off the treadmill.
7 years into my C9 and it never fails to impress.
Exactly. I could probably get a 10 year old panel and be happy with it.
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> One can't expect that every driver package submission from every vendor is thoroughly vetted every time Why not? Microsoft isn't a struggling startup. They can afford to do just that.
Because at scale, that doesn't work, I think, even money no object, because it's a task that requires a lot of domain knowledge, but also is monotonous and offers little in the way of satisfaction or looking good on your resume, so the candidates you're trying to hire aren't very junior, and also are not going to like the work.
If you can’t offer a feature like this in a secure manner then you shouldn’t offer the feature at all.
Re: LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
#369US residential proxies are the bane of the internet. They're the major source of social media manipulation and spam.
Services can dramatically reduce abuse by blocking entire IP ranges based on country of origin, organization, or type (hosting providers). But a company can't block US residential IPs if it would also cut off many of their real customers.
The US government (probably the NSA) should be cracking down hard on US residential proxy networks. They're a genuine national security threat, actual data/identity loss of American citizens, act as infra for foreign covert influence campaigns, botnets used in hacking/DoS attacks, etc.
Major US ISPs (Comcast, AT&T) should detect clearly suspicious activity coming from customer IPs and warn them to scan their computers, check their TV apps, and find whatever is turning their internet into a proxy. It's very bad for the customers too (slows things down, gets their IP banned, etc)
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15 years ago people would've called it spyware.
20 years ago people would've called it a trojan horse. But then, by standards of two decades ago, every website that cannot legally avoid showing a GDPR popup would be classified as malware. As it should be today. Alas, standards have changed.
> But then, by standards of two decades ago, every website that cannot legally avoid showing a GDPR popup would be classified as malware. As it should be today. Alas, standards have changed.
I don't think you've read GDPR. In Europe (at least my part), *every* organization has a GDPR policy you need to agree to. Your child's school. Summer camps. Etc. Most are also conservative and reasonable.
What's broken is the GDPR popup with a dozen "legitimate interest" toggles for spying on you.