• LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Just dont connect the tv to Wifi and problem solved.

    How can the general public not understand this?

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      No WiFi needed.

      https://sidewalk.amazon/

      If you don’t want to click the link I don’t blame you. It’s a LoRA style node based network that the TV or FireStick will connect to if you don’t allow it on WiFi. It’s free to connect to so there’s more incentive for any tv maker to use it.

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        12 days ago

        Could “We the People” hijack this network to use it in totally normal and completely legal ways and definitely not for operating a peernet-like network

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          12 days ago

          Good question, but the throughput is really low and I’m not exactly sure how the endpoints (or exit nodes, if that’s what they are called) work.

          Would be a neat project though, and could add a huge node network to the existing LoRa stuff it it’s compatible.

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      15 days ago

      uXDT… Cross devie tracking… Dude come on thats old tracking methods… Back before the days of smart TVs… Specifically designed to track devices that aren’t connected to a network… How can you not understand that…