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Idle televisions are turned into web-scraping proxies

development2026-02-28

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Bright Data is offering an SDK that turns smart TVs into web-scraping proxy nodes.

Reporting date: 2026-02-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to February 28, 2026

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Bright Data

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Welcome to February 28, 2026

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Idle televisions are turned into web-scraping proxies
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-28-smart-tvs-become-scraping-nodes
Claim: Bright Data is offering an SDK that turns smart TVs into web-scraping proxy nodes.
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- Welcome to February 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-28-2026
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