im using a chromecast right now and i want a similar experience to that, just more privacy friendly

although i have set up a google account just for my chromecast with its own email, it still doesn’t feel like its enough

im in the eu btw

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    8 hours ago

    might get some hate here for this one but my parents hooked me up with vseebox. Just don’t log any info into it. This is coming straight from a tech illiterate person so I don’t fuck around with Linux or anything

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          5 hours ago

          C’mon, then why did you think you were going to get hate for this? And you don’t know what a botnet is?

          Vseebox’s are part of a known botnet. Some of the original boxes were a part of a net called Badbox. After that was discovered, some modifications were made to the code, it was rediscovered and this version is called, unsurprisingly, Badbox 2.0.

          Just in case you truly don’t know, by using these products you are contributing to the botnet, facilitating less harmful things like ad fraud, to much more harmful things like illicit proxy services, malware distribution, and DDoS offerings.

          Vseebox’s aren’t the only devices that feed into this botnet either.