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permalink:https://www.reddit.com/r/InterstellarKinetics/comments/1tyunr0/warning_security_researchers_have_just_revealed/+4

headline:WARNING: Security Researchers Have Just Revealed That The Smart TV In Your Living Room May Be Actively Routing AI Web Scraping Traffic Through Your Home Internet Connection Right Now, Without You Realizing What You Agreed To 📺⚠️+4

textBody:Cybersecurity firm Include Security published a detailed technical investigation revealing that a company called Bright Data, which markets the world’s largest residential proxy network, embeds a software development kit into consumer apps on smart TVs and mobile phones that silently turns those devices into exit nodes for web scraping traffic routed by paying customers who include AI companies. Bright Data sells access to a network it advertises as containing over 150 million residential IP addresses, and the supply behind that network comes from an SDK embedded in partner apps across major platforms including Roku, LG, Samsung, Vizio, and Comcast-distributed services through partners like PlayWorks Digital, which reports distribution reach across approximately 250 million TV homes, and CloudTV, which is integrated into over 125 TV brands and 15 or more original equipment manufacturers. The SDK is framed as a way for users to get a free app or fewer ads in exchange for allowing the app to occasionally use their device’s resources, but the researcher documented that the SDK’s own publicly accessible configuration file sets a default monthly WiFi bandwidth budget of 200 gigabytes per device, a figure that bears no resemblance to the word “occasionally” used in the consent screens of at least one documented partner app called Petflix on Roku. The technical investigation, conducted through 30 days of traffic capture from a research device running a consent-installed partner app and static analysis of the iOS SDK binary, revealed a series of design choices that significantly exceed what a reasonable user would understand themselves to be consenting to. Once installed, the SDK opens a persistent WebSocket connection to Bright Data’s infrastructure and continuously transmits a live feed of the device’s physical state including screen status, battery level, CPU usage, memory usage, network type, and whether the user is actively on a phone call. The SDK’s own configuration explicitly sets a flag called ignore_screen_on to true and another called ignore_on_call to true, meaning a device is considered eligible to relay someone else’s scraping traffic even while the user is actively using the screen or in the middle of a phone call. The SDK also ships a flag called use_netifs that causes the peer tunnel carrying scraping traffic to bind directly to the device’s physical WiFi or cellular interface rather than routing through the system default, which means on iOS the scraping traffic bypasses any VPN the user has configured entirely, even when all other traffic on the device is passing through that VPN. Include Security notified Bright Data of the planned publication by email on May 11, 2026, and received no response before the article published. Bright Data’s SDK configuration endpoint, which contains the full partner manifest, per-country bandwidth tiers, and idle detection thresholds, is publicly accessible without any authentication to anyone who supplies a valid app bundle ID and SDK version string. The researchers documented that certain countries receive dramatically different treatment under the SDK’s configuration, with devices in Uzbekistan and Oman permitted to relay traffic down to a battery level of one percent with daily caps 20 times the global default and monthly caps 60 times the global default, while the worldwide default still permits 500 megabytes of third-party scraping traffic per month over a user’s home internet connection. For households that want to block the SDK’s peer tunnel at the router level right now, Include Security identified three specific hostnames that can be blocked via DNS settings without affecting any legitimate Bright Data customer-facing service: proxyjs.brdtnet.com, proxyjs.luminatinet.com, and proxyjs.bright-sdk.com.+4

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