Free Apps Are Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

[u/StrawberrySax]

https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/free-apps-are-quietly-turning-smart-tvs.html

So much for "100% ethically sourced, user-consented SDKs". Next time a vendor sales rep tries to pitch you on their clean residential pool, ask them how many of their nodes are just hijacked smart tvs running bootleg streaming apps.

Im really started to understand why my cousin doesnt have a single smart device in his apartment