In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
Ehhh…yeah, maybe, but I think that the problem is really broader than that.
Petflix, a Roku app documented by The Verge, is a representative case. Its opt-in screen reads: “To enjoy Petflix for free with fewer ads, you are allowing Bright Data to occasionally use your device’s free resources and IP address to download public web data from the internet…
Say you have kids. And your kids have friends over. Are you curating what “free” apps your kids’ friends have on their phones that they connect to your WiFi network?
Those kids had to sit through the security PowerPoint before getting the Wi-Fi just like my kids did. If they fail the phishing test they comes around a week after the presentation they will not make it on my devices whitelist.
Good thing I air gapped my TV.
Ehhh…yeah, maybe, but I think that the problem is really broader than that.
Say you have kids. And your kids have friends over. Are you curating what “free” apps your kids’ friends have on their phones that they connect to your WiFi network?
Those kids had to sit through the security PowerPoint before getting the Wi-Fi just like my kids did. If they fail the phishing test they comes around a week after the presentation they will not make it on my devices whitelist.
I control all apps, so yes.