“Beneath that calm interface, however, a proxy SDK silently sells access to the home’s internet connection, making money in the background while the user stares at animated fish.”
That fish tank screensaver on your LG TV is renting out your home internet to strangers. Spur found proxy SDKs in 42.5 percent of LG webOS apps, routing other people’s traffic through your network for cash. Amazon and Roku ban this outright. LG and Samsung just shrug and take the cut, leaving your router and everything behind it one step from whoever rented the connection.