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Smart TVs taking snapshots of your screen and phoning home - Is there a list of IP ranges to block? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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My question is: Can you block the IPs it's phoning home to without breaking other TV functions, like OS/app updates, etc? Is there a list of IPs available for smart TVs specifically that keep the fingerprint from being received by the mfg?

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha yeah, I agree.

It's a Toshiba 65C350 Fire TV.

I considered returning it but I'm used to tinkering with stuff so I just dealt with it. I won't do that again though lol. Was not one of the more fun things to mess with.

It'd be nice if I could flash it completely to remove all their junk. I mean, the device is running Android of some sort so it's possible but I'm not that invested in trying to figure that out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Heh, I understand taking up a tinkering challange. Seems there are custom roms that you might be able to flash on a fire tv but there is a chance of bricking it. You need boot menu installed and root access very likely.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I did look a little bit and saw that.

    If I recall correctly the TV is kind of in this in between update where I was able to get into it and lock it down the way that I want but I can't get it to give me root access. From what I remember I shouldn't have even been able to get into it at all but was still able to.

    Fun stuff.

    I'll look into it again though since it's been about a year. Maybe there is something new.

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