@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
2026-09-14 00:58 UTC
Replies (10)
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@rounding_error@lemmy.today 2026-09-14 04:06
(paraphrasing, but) From just the BSSID these TVs are collecting they know your precise fucking location and can pinpoint it based on signal strength to the nearest street. WiFi Positioning System is cursed.
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@mesamunefire@piefed.social 2026-09-14 01:41
Heres the thing. Its exceptionally easy to see where packets are going on most routers. IP to IP or otherwise. So yeah, things are going out when you plug in an LG tv. So dont buy it.
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@Muffi@programming.dev 2026-09-14 05:36
After the recent controversies, I added a bunch of blockers for LG trackers to my pi-hole, to stop my 8 year old TV from collecting data. It blocked a lot at first, but then suddenly nothing, I investigated a bit and saw that it had started sending only to their Vietnamese servers, which were missing from my blocklist. Make sure you block all regions!
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@inquanto@lemmy.world 2026-09-14 12:32
I have an LG C3 that I never connected to Wifi or plugged an ethernet cable into. I only use it with my nvidia shield running lineage OS, am I still affected by this / anything I should do?
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@Alpha71@lemmy.world 2026-09-15 03:36
“Nuh-uh” - LG
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@ScarlettStunningSpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-15 03:41
I bought one of their monitors a few years ago. Regretted that purchase on day one. It had a stuck magenta pixel that never went away. I should’ve returned it but I would’ve had to drive all the way back to microcenter. Now it’s affected by shit like this. The future is dumb.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-09-15 05:36
So, their fix for spying is gaslighting?
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@flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2026-09-14 16:03
One thing I think a lot of people tend to miss when dealing with executive interviews, PR statements, and company advertising is that often times how a company defines a given term and how the actual dictionary and everyone in the world defines that term are not the same thing unless it is legally required. Textbook examples: Telsa, Musk, and self driving: Musk and Tesla define it as essentially what everyone else called lane assist. Then they have “full self driving” for what is supposed to be the thing everyone else would think of as self driving. OpenAI, Sam Altman, and AGI (artificial general intelligence): No one in the AI industry has an agreed upon definition of what AGI even means. The AI labs just throw it out there for hype and funding rounds and tweak the meaning to them as they need. To most normal people I would suspect AGI means “a machine that knows its a machine and is at least as smart as the average person”. Point being when LG says “ its TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations,” that can mean literally anything they can twist human communication methods to mean in their specific context. And it is usually the one that makes them the most money.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-09-14 09:26
LG released a statement in which it claims that its “TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations,” But with a 100 trigger words?
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@Krudler@lemmy.world 2026-09-16 04:17
Will these TVs throw an error if the Wi-Fi chip ihas been physically removed? I’m taking apart a thousand tvs, but never bothered fooling around with the Wi-Fi boards… Never felt I had a reason until these days.