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@tophz_ Watch "breaking bad bro"

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This is how the pain distribution percentages were shared amongst clubs after RONALDO won the league. 😂😂

Barcelona 50%
Al Hila 25%
Inter Miami 15%
Others 10%

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This angle just makes the build-up before the goal look unreal 🤯

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@Danielbeloved28 @kena_ewuru Another angle

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🚨 Cristiano Ronaldo: “I will speak at the end of the season about many real matters.

I was the first to come to this league, and the rest came because of me.

They must respect the referees; even if they make mistakes, they are human and they do errors”, told @rioferdy5.

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@Ozedikus On the world stage there's nothing like morality. It's strictly about interest.

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solo dates hacks every man should try, at least once every year

1. take yourself to the cinema alone. buy popcorn. pick a seat you actually want. laugh, cry if you need to. no one talking to you. just you and the movie.

2. go to a cafe on a weekday. order a drink and a small pastry. sir by the window and face your phone down for a bit. watch people going to work, students rushing, cars passing, birds singing, children playing, just life moving in that pace.

3. book a nice but affordable hotel in your city. pack a small overnight bag like you're traveling. order room service or buy food on the way. take a long cold shower, wear your robe, lie on the bed and do nothing if you want. journal, watch a movie, listen to a relaxing music, sleep in clean white sheets and covers with the ac on.

4. take yourself on a saturday breakfast. wake up early, shower, wear something cute. go somewhere that serves breakfast. sit there, and order something nice. enjoy your meal, take some selfies even if you not photogenic.

5. enjoy yourself man. come on, you deserve it. you need it.

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I've never seen a man so selfless as H.E Peter Obi 😌

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SOURCES

-Study: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs" — UC Davis, UCL, UC3M (ACM IMC 2024)
https://t.co/Jb4EPzaYDf

-UCL press release:
https://t.co/ZjF0jrG6Xs…

-FTC v. Vizio (2017):
https://t.co/jOMOl1enu2…

-Texas AG lawsuits (December 2025):
https://t.co/ba0njJpy02…

-Samsung settlement (February 2026):
https://t.co/ba0njJpy02…

-Vizio earnings (platform revenue $598M):
https://t.co/DHLhMqV1Bg…

-LG ad revenue (~$700M):
https://t.co/nIGi4wsFdW…

-Consumer Reports disable guide:
https://t.co/WzelJ6k6Sf…

-73 million Samsung TVs in US:
https://t.co/s63unojdbr…

FBI smart TV warning (2019):
https://t.co/w4kcLXkJCR…

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Why they do it
Money. TV companies don't just sell hardware anymore they sell your attention.
Vizio pulled in $598 million from ads and data in 2023. More than it made selling TVs. LG's ad business hit nearly $700 million in 2024.

The FTC found Vizio went further than most: it matched viewer IP addresses with data brokers to append age, gender, income, and marital status then sold the full profiles to advertisers. That cost Vizio $2.2 million in FTC fines in 2017, plus a $17 million class action settlement.

In December 2025, the Texas AG sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL for the same conduct. A court blocked Hisense from collecting any data within 48 hours. Samsung settled in February 2026.

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What's actually happening
Your TV runs a feature called ACR Automatic Content Recognition. Think Shazam, but for your screen. It takes snapshots of whatever's displaying, converts them to fingerprints, and ships them to the company's servers to identify exactly what you're watching.

Every show. Every channel. Every ad. Second by second.
And it doesn't care what the source is. Laptop. PlayStation. Cable box. Anything through HDMI. The researchers found ACR traffic flowing even when the TV was being used as a plain external monitor.