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The insane amount of requests my LG tv has sent since last Friday (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by iloveyou@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We recently blacklisted some of the IP’s that our LG tv was sending data to. I can’t believe the sheer number of requests logged in just 1 week! And what’s worse is LG is even denying it now

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[–] shaman1093@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't you just block the MAC address in your router? Or does the family like to use the built in apps?

[–] iloveyou@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We mainly tried this first out of curiosity, and because the LG tv has some parental controls we use for the kids! But gonna have to find an alternative