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What makes you think an internet-connected streaming device couldn't and isn't just doing the same thing?

I otherwise completely agree with everything else you've said.

Presumably you could just cut it off from the internet by dns filtering or setting up a vlan to only allow it to communicate to your locally hosted plex/jellyfish instance.

Well, for one, a separate streaming box would only have access to the video it shows. The central multiplexer sees it all.

Yeah no, that's exactly what I mean (in context of the parent to which I've replied): streaming devices are likely capturing and phoning home screenshots of their own display output, too.

But yes, a smart TV programmed to do the same is even more unscrupulous given that it can 'spy' on everything it displays, to presumably include the input of connected devices.

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