The Smart TV in Your Living Room Is a Node in the AI Scraping Economy★ 74
Hacker News (AI keywords)·8 days ago·Ethics
Include Security examines how Bright Data’s SDK supplies residential proxy capacity through partner apps on phones and connected TVs.
The post argues smart TVs are especially attractive because they are always powered, often on fast Wi-Fi, and rarely monitored.
It details public configuration endpoints, peer tunnel behavior, telemetry, VPN visibility bypasses, bandwidth limits, and practical DNS or network-blocking defenses.
