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When I finally offload my $SOL bags I won’t tell anyone but there will be signs.
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
xitter.cf/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
this is gold's quantum FUD but it's way worse because you can't software update gold.
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
hey guys im going to give you a quick lesson
when a coin is uptrending & leading the market at the beginning of a multi-year bull trend, you buy when it pulls back 20-30% after going up 5x, not post screenshots on twitter
your inability to extend your time horizons is going to lose you a lot of money if you don't change your biases quick
time is the most underappreciated variable in trading, pump has existed as an app since 2023, coin has traded since ICO in mid 2025, & it has traded sub .005 for 80% of this time
what that means is there has been a strong accumulation phase already with ~hundreds of billions of trading volume exchanging hands, the base has already been established, & it has never experienced an uptrend during a bull market, it is transitioning from S1 to S2, you should be looking for opportunities to add
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
Welcome to Claynos @MakaveliDlaCruz! So excited to have you as a collector. Mak's been an avid cheerleader of IP and Claynosaurz on the timeline. Helping to coordinate community cross pollinations with BAYC and Otherside, he's an advocate for the health and growth of the NFT space. Thanks for taking the leap 🌋💚
gm claynosaurz 🦖
After years of checking the floor waiting to see “the one” I finally found my dino 🦖 & I couldn’t be happier to be officially part of the herd!
And on a second note, please Join us for NFTs
xitter.cf/i/spaces/1rGmqpmjBpwGy
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
When we built Claynos 4 years ago, there was no direct comparable. So it was hard for people to understand what we wanted to do. There was no map. Same with Pudgys, by the way. That’s what happens when you don’t follow other people’s playbooks, and you set out to build your own metas. What we’re doing is novel, and in hindsight the bets make sense.
Years later, we’re considered a flagship NFT brand across any chain. We have also created trends. Starting from nothing, we built a creator-led brand that today is recognized for its innovation in community-driven storytelling, digital-first animation, collectibles, and social media strategy. We’ve won more than 40 industry awards (against Sony, Pixar, Riot, Disney and including the Webbys) and grown into an IP ecosystem spanning content with over 2 billion views including micro-episodes now streaming on Prime Video. The brand grew from short-form social content into an expanding million-dollar IP ecosystem spanning animation, games, experiences, collectibles, and products. That was unfathomable 4 years ago. And we did that with you.
Throughout our journey, which is still just the beginning, Collectors have been airdropped thousands of dollars worth of collectibles or tokens, and have won through our alpha teams many times. We’ve held events all over the world with thousands of people. And more intimate networking ones too. We’ve given away thousands of merch units to collectors. We have built value for the collectibles as was promised. Everything else has been because we chose to.
We gave away 15% of our company to collectors. We did not have to. We have proven our ability to deliver, and our values over and over.
All of these successes you’re now a part owner in, and you’ll benefit from in the future. Everything we do now benefits you because of the value that is accrued as we build this. And we will continue to add substantial value to our ecosystem.
That’s why we built HEEBOO, so we can continue to win together in the long term. Big wins happen when you disrupt. Disruption is never obvious at the start. But neither was claynos. For community wins, the creator must win too. When the HEEBOO platform launches in fall and as projects launch and succeed, so will you. That is the point. Just like finding coins on pumpfun early, if you’re good at finding IP early, and participating, you will win. Only it’s not PVP.
PVE > PVP
A riff on SimpleFarmer’s ethos: Our North Star is to bring more fans and more capital onchain by executing on high-level EntertainmentFi technologies and helping those brands launch and scale in a sustainable way, while aligning those that discover and support those brands.
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
Another smart trader spotted!
After 2 years of inactivity, he bought 95,928 $SOL($9.74M) again.
Over the past 3 years, he has completed 2 $SOL swing trades, buying low and selling high both times, making $4.95M in total profit.
arkm.com/explorer/address/ty…
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
For crypto founders, the biggest lesson from @fomo and @Pumpfun ascendance is that the distribution model of the last 5 years for apps is moot.
Web3 is dead, wallet connect is dead, dApps are dead.
The new plan is vertically integrated mobile: hide the crypto mechanics entirely. Single balance across chains, integrated onramp (Apple Pay is king), no bridges, no seed phrases or private keys (sign in with Google or X).
For wallet apps themselves, this presents an existential crisis. The user demands simplicity & the feeling of safety. In the past, your wallet was a gateway to crypto. Now, I hold a deposit in each app I use and I don't yet care if they talk to each other.
As always, we go through bundling and unbundling cycles. If Phantom and Jupiter and Metamask were bundling, we are now seeing a great unbundling.
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
This is just insane
One guy started to lp $ANSEM a month ago
In exactly one month he made 983 SOL ($81K)
Now he's earning around $1.5K every single day
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
Nearly every ecosystem over the last 6 years that took shots at solana during hard times and failures (FTX, outages, almost outages, congestion, etc) is literally dead. Criticized at every step by 100s of ecos.
Thankful you all kept building 🙏🏽
Solana
Mighty.Sol | CHADS TO 100 GFY 💪 retweeted
Today, we fully rolled out Coinbase's first production @solana smart contract!
As part of the Vector acquisition, we brought over some hardcore Solana devs who are looking for every opportunity to optimize the DEX trading experience.
We rolled out a lightweight aggregator that gives us enough control to ensure 99.9% of Solana DEX tokens are routeable (quote errors are down 80%!).
More to come later this year: stay tuned 👀
