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points by port11 3 days ago | 0 comments
I didn’t know this was a thing. Yikes. I’m gonna freak out now and find a way to prevent that in our home network.

And I’d argue that’s not clean business, the user doesn’t know what their connection is being used for :)

[–] anon7000 2 days ago
More than half of LG smart Tv apps seem to have residential proxies: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

Definitely pretty crazy. This is probably have they’re in the White House, all it takes is a random smart device to install a seemingly benign wallpaper app

[–] cryptonym 3 days ago
"User accepted T&C" is enough to get away with almost anything. It works very well for top IT companies. Upholding new business to higher standards would be unfair.
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