You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of “entertainment.”

  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Well, so, about that.

    A lot of TV’s will form mesh nets with same brand-or even across brands-, until they find one that is connected. I’ve even heard reports of one with a sim card¹.

    ¹in a 'smoke filled room’² ²okay it was a van. A smoke filled van. And she was on some other stuff too.