Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Are Laced with Proxies​ (opens in new tab)

Spur: “Everyone worries about the apps on their phone. Almost no one looks at the ones on their TV. We scanned 6,038 of them across LG and Samsung; 2,058 were selling your IP address. On screen, it’s a relaxing fish tank. Or a clock. Or solitaire. Or puppies. Under the hood, it is a residential proxy: software that can send other people’s internet traffic out through your living room. And we found it everywhere. Smart TVs are almost ideal proxy hosts. They sit on the same home network as ever...