this is wild: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

thanks to @dne for sharing it with me

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.

Spur Intelligence Corporation
this shit is why i do not ever configure network access on 'smart' appliances
@ariadne my TV does not need to have a computer in it, it only needs to be a big screen with speakers that has an HDMI cable plugged in. I do not want that computer in there, get it out (even if it is funny to scroll thru the software license listing and guess how their thing works. Seeing Mesa and Android components listed on the same TV is wild. Or seeing a random project I contributed to listed.)