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Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. (www.notus.org)

submitted 1 year ago by FirstCircle@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Televisions that can stream platforms like Hulu or Max usually come loaded with technology that collects information on what viewers are watching, and buyers consent to have their viewing tracked when they open their new TV and click through terms of service agreements. Sometimes, data firms can connect those viewing habits to a voter’s phone or laptop via their IP address, promising a trove of information about an individual and the ability to track them across screens.

Other times, firms focus on dividing households into groups based on what they’re watching, how they use their TVs and how many campaign ads they’re seeing, which is a boon to political campaigns eager to target specific groups of voters. Connecting this data to voter files is increasingly a focus — a move that adds individual voting habits into the mix.

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[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 96 points 1 year ago (51 children)

The more and more of stuff like this I see, the kore I just wan't to buy the cheapest possible mini pc, make it tv remote controllable and just put it to open jellyfin directly that's connected to my home media server.

And then hook it up to the most dumb tv I can fijd with decent picture quality.

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

As others have said, just buy a TV that meets your A/V needs and don't connect it to the internet.

I know everyone talks about Jellyfin these days, but Kodi is an excellent option too if you don't need streaming to multiple devices. I use Kodi via LibreElec on an rpi4 and it's been great. All media is stored on my home server and shared over Samba, but you can easily store it locally on the box if you don't have a server.

For music streaming, I run a separate instance of miniDLNA on my server, since I like to browse-by-directory for my music instead of relying solely on metadata. This also allows you to stream to any DLNA-friendly device on the LAN.

I've digitized my disc collection and just keep the physical media as a backup. The local library has a huge selection of media too...and if we don't use it, we'll lose it.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly don't know why you wouldn't just do jellyfin, unless you're limited by your hardware and kodi somehow has less overhead?

They're both free I guess. You can try them on and see how well they serve tour use case

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

JF's UI hasn't really done it for me for whatever reason...I have it running in an LXC already and mostly use it at my workstations.

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