GamersNexus

You're so right.

Steve from Gamers Nexus.

Steve, absolutely.

Steve has been more effective, in my opinion.

So TV brands tracking user activity to serve targeted ads isn't a new phenomenon, but the extent of private information they allegedly collect may worry some TV owners.

In an investigative video published on Monday, Gamers Nexus claims that TVs from one of the world's largest and most popular brands, LG, can eavesdrop on users' conversations even when the screens are turned off.

The investigation was carried out with level one techs and other independent researchers, and the resulting video is nearly 135 minutes.

In the video, Gamers Nexus says that while most TV brands collect your viewing data for their automated content recognition systems, LG goes beyond the basics to collect valuable pieces of information such as your location, IP address, names of nearby Wi-Fi networks, and the names of all devices connected to the same network as your TV.

They just want to know what you're doing so they can look in on your safety.

Yeah, and they want to be able to let you know what product you need next.

According to the video, what's more concerning is that LG also knows about 363 million secondary devices.

phones, computers, iPads, etc., which may include smartphones connected to the same network as the TV.

It's like, "We need a software update," and they have so many different, like, th- things, and they wanna show you ads, and it's all very annoying, even though the TVs, like, look nice these days.

But last month, GamersNexus, they put out this two-hour YouTube video showing that LG TVs ... are, like, aggressively using spyware, effectively.

That, that's the allegation.

So, uh, they scan the local network for third-party phones [laughs] and other devices.

And it gets worse.

A 128GB DDR56400 ECC registered module that Gamers Nexus bought for $1,060 in 2024 is now out of stock, with secondary market listings as high as $6,800.

The same series 512GB kit climbed from $4,200 to $23,811.

Okay,

Okay, let's look into now the test case.

Earlier this month, Gamers Nexus, working with Level One Techs and a handful of independent security researchers, put out a video that's more than two hours long called 216 Million Spy TVs.

They bought everything.

retail LG OLED TVs, including a 2025 model, the G5, and spent something like $500 and $70,000 figuring out what those TVs do when no one's actively watching them.

Comment number three, what's users conversations? Is my kid a user? Is the person on the couch who never touched a remote a user? Is a conversation still a conversation if it's been turned into fingerprint instead of audio files? And comment number four, and this is the one that actually matters to me as an engineer.

Explain the offline buffer.

Because if what Gamers Nexus showed holds up, audio stored while offline and uploaded when the network came back, that's not an accident.

That's a store and forward queue.

I suggested my mum buy one, and she did, and my in-laws as well.

And there was a report done by an incredible team on YouTube called Gamers Nexus.

that spent something like 500 hours and £70,000 looking at LG's top tier of TVs and looking at the data and the way they work.

And they essentially discovered that they are listening to everything you do, recording everything you do.