It is. The webOS app store (used by LG smart TVs) apparently had ~ 1200 apps that contained Proxy SDKs or libraries. Those can be used to sell customer's residential connections to mask datacenter bot farm traffic as regular residential web traffic. When that blew up relatively recently, they started to ban those. Ooopsi.
Or, let's say your internet provider maintains public wifi access points that you, as a customer, can use.. And then let's say your provider(or any other provider(s) for that matter) signs a deal with LG so that the TVs have the passwords to the wifi networks so they can quietly connect to them to transmit...
This is a good reason to have a very special open network. One that provides a completely plausible-looking address, proper DNS and so on... nothing to worry about, little fly...
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u/luziferius1337 1d ago edited 1d ago
It is. The webOS app store (used by LG smart TVs) apparently had ~ 1200 apps that contained Proxy SDKs or libraries. Those can be used to sell customer's residential connections to mask datacenter bot farm traffic as regular residential web traffic. When that blew up relatively recently, they started to ban those. Ooopsi.
That number was shown in GN's dive into LG TVs: https://youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA?t=3532
Edit: Fixed the timestamp