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LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
Following a report from security firm Spur that 42% of apps available to download on LG's webOS store allow unknown third parties to route traffic through a user's smart TV, LG has announced that it will no longer allow apps to contain this feature. Spur found that the majority of these apps used SDKs from the residential proxy network Bright Data. Bright Data responded that users opt in to the sharing via a consent screen and that they follow know-your-customer processes, but Spur counters that these one-time prompts are buried in the apps and insufficient.
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