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Roku TV won't play flash drive unless you let apps read files
When I try to play audio, video, files from a flash drive, the Roku TV requires that you allow all apps to read your files. If I delete ALL apps except media player, is my data safe on the flash drive? Or is Roku passing around my private files? I considered a bigger TV but no way will it be Roku since my privacy does not exist while using their tv's
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Re: Roku TV won't play flash drive unless you let apps read files
A few thoughts and questions:
I assume you know that in order to be played, a file has to be read, right?
Would it be better if the question wasn't asked? I'm not sure of the right answer to this one. For example my computer doesn't ask this question. It simply provides the access. If I wanted to prevent the access, I could set up multiple users with private directories and make sure to only use known-safe apps in the user account with the private data, but few people (besides governments and corporations) seem to bother with stuff like that.
For a typical user, I would say that if the stuff is that private, then never play/read it on anything that is connected to a network. For example I could play a secret file on my TV or my BD player, since neither have network connections.