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LG Smart TVs Caught Scanning Networks and Logging Audio in Standby
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Sahwa reddthat.com throws_lemy@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-04
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Link: https://cybersecuritynews.com/lg-smart-tvs-caught-scanning-networks/
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A Good Hunter lemmy.world a_good_hunter@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
#2 · Quote Reply

This is why we cannot have nice things
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psycho_driver lemmy.world psycho_driver@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#3 · Quote Reply

Great. Now do any android or apple phone for the past 10+ years.
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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#4 · Quote Reply
A Good Hunter wrote:
This is why we cannot have nice things

This is why we prefer non-"smart" things
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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#5 · Quote Reply

Note: most LG ad and telemetry domains are not blocked by the default Pi-hole blocklist!

You can add smart TV blocklists easily enough

I use Perflyst SmartTV List: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt
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DeLancre piefed.social DeLancre@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-07-04
#6 · Quote Reply
psycho_driver wrote:
Great. Now do any android or apple phone for the past 10+ years.
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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#7 · Quote Reply
DeLancre wrote:
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Best option that I found for my LG C2 — is to just turn internet off.

See my post above, you can use pihole to just block your internet's connection to LG's ad telemetry.
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CentipedeFarrier piefed.social CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-11-21
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply
nymnympseudonym wrote:
Note: most LG ad and telemetry domains are not blocked by the default Pi-hole blocklist! You can add smart TV blocklists easily enough I use Perflyst SmartTV List: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt

My experience with roku is that if you block all the telemetry stuff by blocking roku with a wildcard, it works for about a month at a time and then breaks certain apps like clockwork and makes you re-download them to restore function, meaning you have to unblock the roku domain and allow it to collect all the stored data.

Idk if its still like that, I did a factory reset and left them offline years back, but just an fyi that this advice may only be partially workable for some platforms.
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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#9 · Quote Reply
CentipedeFarrier wrote:
My experience with roku is that if you block all the telemetry stuff by blocking roku with a wildcard, it works for about a month at a time and then breaks certain apps like clockwork and makes you re-download them to restore function, meaning you have to unblock the roku domain and allow it to collect all the stored data. Idk if its still like that, I did a factory reset and left them offline ...

blocking roku with a wildcard

yeah that won't work

Hence the value in Perflyst's repo

Example:

# LG
ad.lgappstv.com
ibis.lgappstv.com
jp.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com
jp.lgtvsdp.com
jp.info.lgsmartad.com
lgad.cjpowercast.com.edgesuite.net
#ngfts.lge.com # blocks thumbnails from loading in the LG Content Store
smartclip.com
smartclip.net
smartshare.lgtvsdp.com
us.ad.lgsmartad.com
us.ibs.lgappstv.com
us.info.lgsmartad.com
#us.lgtvsdp.com # #117
us.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com
yumenetworks.com
aic-ngfts.lge.com
us.cdpbeacon.lgtvcommon.com
us.cdpsvc.lgtvcommon.com
us.homeprv.lgtvcommon.com
us.nudge.lgtvcommon.com
us.rdl.lgtvcommon.com
us.recommend.lgtvcommon.com
us.lgsmartad.com
us.service.lgtvcommon.com
# Gamers Nexus - LG Smart TV spying
aic.cdpsvc.lgtvcommon.com
aic.cdpbeacon.lgtvcommon.com
us.nextlgsdp.com # other regions also needend? de.nextlgsdp.com? i cant see that a lot of different servers are existing .de, .it, .br. see: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/issues/167
ngfts.nextlgsdp.com
aic.rdl.lgtvcommon.com
aic-gfts.nextlgsdp.com
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Jackhammer_Joe lemmy.world Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply
nymnympseudonym wrote:
Note: most LG ad and telemetry domains are not blocked by the default Pi-hole blocklist! You can add smart TV blocklists easily enough I use Perflyst SmartTV List: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt

Could not add to gravity database

The item is already present.

Thanks past me! Good job!
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