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Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI


A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry.

The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world,

Source: thehackernews.com –

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