Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
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If I don't connect it to the internet they don't get to sell ur data innit

I only watch pirated content. What data are they selling?

Your viewing habits. Nature shows? Show this guy camping gear ads on his phone!

You know, if I did get relevant ads from all of these places that are supposedly tracking everything that I do and monitoring my likes, I wouldn't mind ads so much. But the fact that even though Google, for example, knows everything that I do and everywhere that I go and everything that I like, they still serve me irrelevant ads that I would never care about in a billion years. All of this touted targeted ads bullshit technology and it doesn't even work. So I don't care, harvest everything that I like and everything that I do. Because it doesn't work anyway.

Bro being a regular sucks and it even sucks more when you don't know what you're taking about. They will sell you Nike while making you think that you're life sucks because you're fat.

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Ah well goodluck google. I haven't seen a single ad from past 6-7 years. Next DNS on my router, Linux mint with Firefox (ublock origin) and same for android.

Nice! I do pretty much the same except for the dns part. I'll look into it.

Having said that, I've always said that we should be able to purchase dumb TVs, and when people say "just don't connect it to the net," they're missing the point, because they're still enabling these companies (this is not directed at you specifically. It's just an argument I keep hearing.)

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Shit will want to connect some way. If I ever have to buy a smart TV for myself, I'm opening it up and swapping the brain board or removing the antenna.

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