“A residential proxy network is not an intended use for LG smart TVs, and LG Electronics is working with developers to remove the residential proxy option from their apps on the webOS platform.”
More than 42 percent of the apps in LG’s store shipped code that turns your television into an exit node for someone else’s traffic. LG only calls it unintended after a researcher counted. A one-time consent prompt buried in an app install is not consent, and the company ran that store the whole time. This is the same outfit that pushed McAfee adware onto its monitors through Windows Update.