Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.
Smart TVs with an internet connection: Lets grab screenshots and send them to cooperate analysis advertisement department.
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This sounds just like when my family member tell me that their phones are “listening to what they say” because they talk about something and then see an advertisement for it.
No, you’re seeing the ad because you googled it and forgot that you did. Or someone else on the house did.
…you’re so far behind the times, it’s comical. Yes, there are microphones around you transmitting the shit you say (or at least sentiment markers from it). Absolutely insane that there are people who don’t believe this today.
A couple of years back, my sister and I were talking of buying some seeds for my mom, who’s an avid gardener. Neither of us had looked anything up. Next things we browsed on our phones, unrelated to the subject, we were served a bunch of gardening ads.
Pretty damning evidence, if you ask me.
Automatically joining open networks is a feature built into many devices, this is simply alleging that some TVs come with it enabled by default…
Also, that is a real feature that some advertising company’s pitch to their clients:
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/
Sounds like you owe some of your family members an apology.
I have never had a device join an open network by itself.
And of the several hundred, or thousands, of smart TV models available, how many have you owned?
Of the tens of thousands of IoT devices available, how many have you owned?
Just trying to figure out the sample size that you based your statement on.