Leakage of data from Smart-TV jellyfin apps? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

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This is maybe a little paranoid but... i have a jellyfin server that i let some family members use. one of them intends to use an app for apple tv, which i think is swiftfin or something like that. i am a bit skeptical about smart-TVs and the data they phone home with, so i was wondering if there is any chance that i could be compromised due to the linux isos i host on jellyfin due to some sneaky smart-TV stuff?

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[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 19 points 3 months ago

First: compromised how?

Second: probably just being paranoid, Apple TV + open source apps are about as good as you're going to get in terms of private viewing.

The Apple TV might report app usage stats to Apple, but unless the app (which it doesn't) reports other telemetry that's not really useful in terms of anything other than, well, seeing that someone uses an app that plays media from Jellyfin.

[-] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

First: compromised how?

I dont want to be receiving dmca letters (or similar where i live). So I mean having access to what is being played (the names of the files would be a dead giveaway).

[-] Clusterfck 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Let’s be real, it’s in those companies best interest that we never know even if they are seeing that. As soon as someone got a DMCA notice because their Roku told the government they pirated Deadpool, there would be a massive amount of damage control required.

[-] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

true, good take

[-] entropicdrift 4 points 3 months ago

Also, Roku or whoever has no way of verifying you pirated it and aren't just watching a blu-ray you owned and ripped to your jellyfin server

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 3 months ago

Should be fine; I've used swiftfin on iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV) for literal years and the copyright police haven't shown up.

[-] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Ok thanks! The price of not really knowing how things work is apparently paranoia cries in technical illiteracy

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 3 months ago

Nothing wrong with asking a question, especially when you're talking about devices that are notorious for sending every scrap of data they can gather to everywhere. (Looking at you, Roku.)

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Interesting thought.

IANAL, but I understand that most successful prosecutions have been for /distributing/ copyright material, rather than /consuming/ it. I think that's quite a big distinction, legally, and watching a dodgy recording is less clearly illegal in many countries and may be entirely legal - even if they could prove that filename = actual file.