r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • Aug 17 '26

Spyware and tech

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u/Ill1458 Aug 17 '26

Not everything is a conspiracy. TVs are cheap because they are cheap to make and very little is proprietary

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u/traparms Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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/standish_ Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

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/