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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds awful; hopefully you were at least able to poison their DB with a fake name and a 10minutemail (or similar) account?

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Basically, though I tend to use GMX email aliases for these sorts of useless signups. I don't want some temporary email account to be all that's needed to get control over my TV should I ever connect it to the internet again.