c/technology@piefed.social · throws_lemy@reddthat.com · 8 Sep 2026 12:14 · edited

LG Smart TVs Caught Scanning Networks and Logging Audio in Standby

Cyber Security News LG Smart TVs Caught Scanning Networks and Logging Audio in Standby Your LG smart TV may be doing far more than displaying your favorite shows while it sits "off" in the corner of your living room.

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• [–] @nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026

  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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  • [–] @CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026 · edited

    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 · 8 Sep 2026

      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 · 8 Sep 2026 · edited

    Could not add to gravity database

    The item is already present.

    Thanks past me! Good job!

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• [–] @a_good_hunter@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

  This is why we cannot have nice things

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  • [–] @nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026

    This is why we prefer non-"smart” things

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• [–] @crimson_iris@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026

  I pihole, but I just found out my Samsung TVs have a hardware cutoff switch for the microphones on the bottom right of the panel. Wish it had occurred to me to check sooner.

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• [–] @psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

  Great. Now do any android or apple phone for the past 10+ years.

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  • [–] @DeLancre@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026

    Situation with TVs way worse. Most non-chinese phones do not spy on you 24/7. Yes, some (if not all) major apps logs everything you do, but it not nearly close to what GN discovered with LG TVs: they literally record your screen and logs everything you say.

    Also, on android you often have options to opt out or change software and sometimes even switch to different OS. Best option that I found for my LG C2 — is to just turn internet off.

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    • [–] @nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026

      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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