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[Women Being Awful @WomenBeingAwful]

What's worse, the fact that he made a spreadsheet or that she constantly denied him sex?

Personally, I'd get a divorce

[Tristan @Tristan0x]

If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.

@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".

A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.

What your TV is doing

The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].

What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
https://t.co/vNdTnIQ6KF
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.

Step 1: Turn off ACR

Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV

Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.

Step 2: Give smart devices their own network

Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.

Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering

NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.

1. Sign up at https://t.co/IwhafVWVM8 (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you

Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.

Why they do this

TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.

In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.

This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].

TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router

Sources:
[1] ACR study: https://t.co/S1IS8lXNbA
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: https://t.co/nclXELXcbd
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: https://t.co/CrVbwc9ZXk
[4] Texas v. Samsung: https://t.co/wFOUdeh1if

[the_ceo @the_ceo99]

Everything most women want from a man costs money. Everything men want from a woman is free.

Yet even the free things (respect, accountability, and peace), most women still refuse to give.

[Andrew Perpetua @AndrewPerpetua]

Elon Musk is having a complete emotional meltdown, dude is shitting his pants level scared over getting investigated by congress.

[Markita Murdock @markitalynn]

My oldest son had a GF that ended up pregnant. When they came over and told us, I looked right in his face and said 'are you sure it's yours?' He got pissed and said, 'We'll just leave if you feel that way!" I said, Just wondering. After the kid was 8 months old (he babysat alot for that little girl while she ran the bars) he said 'mom, she doesn't look like anyone in our family!" So one day he was babysitting and came over. I got a DNA test and we took that test. The results came back 100% NOT his. He broke down crying. I felt sorry for him. BUT, I do remember her dad would not let my son in the delivery room, unfortunately he signed the documents the next day as The Father. So, after all this shit, I got on the internet, downloaded all the forms to get his name OFF the birth certificate. Nice try bitch, because she got knocked up by some under employed loser that already had 1 kid by someone else. It took a while, but the county courts demanded my son and the baby go to a DNA place thru the courts. The bitch didn't show up, my son did. The sheriff was sent to her house with a warrant. After the tests, again, the baby was not his. Name finally removed from the birth certificate. Dumb bitch. Thought she was going to pull one over on my son, but not as long as this momma was alive!!!

[Private Eye Russ @privateeyeruss]

Russian women are the most high maintenance, materialistic women on the face of the Earth. They all want billionaires. If you are not one they will be looking to bounce at the first opportunity.

[Cortiq @0xCortiq]

🚨BREAKING NEWS : Your "deleted" photos aren't deleted.

Claude Code found years of them sitting in a hidden cache on my iPhone.

I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run a backup. I had Claude Code doing a security check at the same time. It flagged something I wasn't looking for. A directory called PhotoData/Thumbnails.

Thousands of files. Photos, videos, screenshots. A lot of them were things I had deleted.

Photos from a couple of years ago. Screenshots I took and deleted a few seconds later. Stuff I went into Recently Deleted and cleared. Some of it was still sitting there.

What I found in that cache:

- old screenshots of banking apps
- photos I deleted right after taking them
- random pictures I didn't want on my phone anymore
- a few things I specifically remember deleting more than once

When you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll and Recently Deleted folder. But it keeps a compressed copy in a Spotlight search cache so your phone can still find things when you search. That cache doesn't get fully cleared.

I checked which apps had Files and Folders access. There were more than I expected, including apps I downloaded a long time ago and forgot about. Any of them could potentially read files from that cache.

I went through the list and removed access from most of them.

The prompt I used is below. It doesn't take long if you already have a backup.

How many apps on your phone have Files access right now?

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT, after 37 years of age, I’ve finally come to realize that, as a man, no one cares about you. Not your wife. Not your family. Not your friends. Not your workmates. Nobody. People act like they care, but deep down, they don't. You are on your own. Always on your own.

[Galaxi @Xgalaxiverse]

Marriages last because men have the heart to tolerate women… living with a woman is NOT for the weak.

[Lucky Stabbin Hat 🧢 @LuckyStabbinHat]

I've been telling people that this is another tragedy of divorce. You aren't owed anything, but giving away the family fortune to another family is pure evil.

[StokPix @StokPix]

A week after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, Warren Buffett put five billion dollars into a Wall Street firm.

Within a minute of its board saying yes, one of its own directors leaked it to a hedge fund and later went to prison for two years.

Guess the company.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is just sad.

[Russian Garbage Human @RusGarbageHuman]

It isn't the manosphere turning men sexist.
It's men discovering female TikTok.

[French OG 🇫🇷🇬🇧| Dating & Relationship Guide @FrenchOG3]

Woman turning into a man and realising she is not gonna be happy about it.

We are setting up the most lopsided society giving women opportunities to corner themselves in situations against their nature.

[Chris Carter @CarterRoutes]

Reddit again hits the nail on the head on the ridiculous VAT threshold.

[The Forgotten ‘Man’ 👨‍⚖️ @SamSiff]

Another warning to men,

Never seek divorce ..
This is what you will get..

The easiest way and the cheapest way to get rid of your abusive or adulterous wife — “Say No to Divorce”

Then wait & watch..

But most of you, do exactly the opposite and end up paying huge alimony and get you names listed in criminal records as a gift..

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Law firms are reportedly offering Matthew Cole, the writer of the money laundering exposé on Jared Kushner, unlimited free legal services to counter-sue Kushner for his libel accusations so when Jared inevitably drops his suit legal discovery can still occur.

[Kabir Menon | The Psyche Lab @the_psyche_lab]

No amount of words will be enough to describe the lack of accountability of this woman. She has tried her best to make it look like it's the man's fault.

This is all I can think of 👇🏼
"Oo Bhai, Maro, Mujhe maro."

[netsky remix @iron_redux]

interesting theory on why and how technology has made it easier for women -- on a psychological level -- to work as wh0res. taken from /r/thelastpsychiatrist