Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Sep 22, 2025

man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.

NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.
that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasion

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Sep 22, 2025
we've got one "smart" TV in the house and it's not using its internal smartness, we have it hooked up to a apple TV. but now I gotta go dig in the options and see if I have to turn off "SCREENSHOT ALL OUR CONTENT AND MAIL IT TO A SERVER"
Show threadJbrown, EsqSep 22, 2025
@foone the apple TV is safer than "insert smart TV brand here"? Have you looked at what the apple TV is doing on the network?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Sep 22, 2025
@jbrownesq nope! but it's not my apple TV, so that issue is out of my hand. I just figured that at least we'd only be dealing with the apple TV spying on us... but no, the roku-tv is spying on what the apple TV has already spied on!
Show threadJbrown, Esq
@foone ahhh ok, understood. Yeah roku is also pretty full of holes lol. We used to use a handful of those services and had at least one smart device online, and then I did a little packet capture and mapped some stuff out. Blocked them all at their hardware addresses at that point.
Sep 22, 2025 at 10:17pmWeb