The smart TV in your living room is a node in the AI scraping economy (opens in new tab)  8 articles covering this post

blog.includesecurity.com··Lobsters, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/privacy·Covered by thejeshgn.com + 7 more·Covers: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network, The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network – Krebs on Security·Open original (opens in new tab)

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.

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Weekly Notes 24/2026

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

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Your Smart TV Could Be An Enslaved AI Web Scraping Bot

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