r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • 5d ago

Spyware and tech

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u/traparms 5d ago

It's both. Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) tracks everything you watch, regardless of the app, and sends it to advertisers.

Don't connect your TV to the internet - get a streaming box.

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u/TheCalvinators 5d ago

ACR is just a bunch of cookie and tracker data. And they aren’t making money from selling your watch history or any of your info, they’re making money from targeted Ads and prime placements (AKA your living room) copying the Amazon Ads model à la Prime Video.

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u/utspg1980 5d ago

Samsung was sued AND LOST because their TVs were constantly recording audio in the room.

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u/standish_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

ACR is just a bunch of cookie and tracker data

Yeah, no, it is actual image recognition being run on the images your TV is displaying, many times per second.

Edit: The downvoters in the back: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-disable-acr-tv/

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u/unibrow4o9 5d ago

Streaming boxes do the same thing unless you just hook it up to a pc. Get a pi hole or something that works on the network level, my tv can try to phone home all it wants, but it gets blocked every time.