Regardless of it being how it always was done, such a finger print can easily be injected into LG's advertising ecosystem to infer everything about your demographic and what your interests and income might be and hit you with more specialized ads.

What we watch is not OK to be fed ads, especially if I wasn't using their service to being with and its monitoring the audio from any input to do this.

In this way, smart tvs and smart home devices are effectively hostile devices behind your router at home.

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josephg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes. It’s also horrible that they have microphones in your home listening to your conversations. LG knowing what I’m watching is awful, but it seems even worse for LG to listen in to the conversation I have with my loved ones about it after. I don’t want to be under surveillance in my own home.

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lrvick 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The good news is there is no good reason to plug the TV into the internet.

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dgellow 2 hours ago | parent [-]

To watch movies from a streaming service?

	▲	j45 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Always, and only use an external device for streaming services, never the software built into the TV. Apple TV, Android TV or other devices are perfectly capable and better integrate with mobile and other devices in your network. The tradeoff consumers are sold is trading convenience of in device apps for security. Smart home devices like TVs, and thermostats should be treated as default hostile and isolated on a guest wireless network instead of your main one.
	▲	allarm an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Use Apple TV for that.

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j45 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Both are unacceptably egregious and done for zero benefit of the customer and a disproportionate and asymmetric benefit for the manufacturer.

I've been trying to learn how to secure LG TVs, and saw that some people do seem to jailbreak them withan open version of webOS.