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by nitrogen 3424 days ago
The TV can only ID what it is that you are watching if the system has also been watching the same video/seen the same video/is also watching the same in real-time as you watch it.

Aren't there digital watermarks on all broadcast TV shows and advertisements? If not, if there's a fingerprinting algorithm that can run on a screen's hardware, or filename matching for USB, media could still be identified. No need for the rest of "the system" to have video files in advance, or at all.
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samstave 3424 days ago
Sort of - but not quite.

Think of it like this; people are concerned that the system can do Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, How-Much, Who-do-they-know,... etc,...

It cant. Surely things can be inferred... but nothing that should get you riled up any-more-so than any other online service you have ever used. Plus - the opt-out functions actually work.

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ysavir 3423 days ago
> Plus - the opt-out functions actually work

But are users (such as myself) made aware of this opt out?

> It cant.

It can't... Or it can't yet?

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