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