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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy

by buchodi blog.includesecurity.com published 2026-06-0512 min read

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

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