Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
Future TechnologyCurated News 2026-06-06 3 min read

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 tra...

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