I don’t understand how this happens. When they added this feature, it walks you through what is shared and who it is shared with. I made all my shit private. I mean, I’m annoyed the default was to share it all, but it’s not like the first notification of this feature was the email about watch history.
You mean Hamas doesn’t want Israel to have more billionaire backers?
Sounds like someone else is watching on your profile.
The risk is the ISP Wi-Fi. As long as you’re using WPA with a good long random passkey, the risk is minimal. However, anyone who had access to your Wi-Fi could initiate an ARP spoof (essentially be a man-in-the-middle)
ETA: the ARP table in networking is a cache of which IP is associated with which MAC Address. By “poisoning” or “spoofing” this table in the router and/or clients, a bad actor can see all unencrypted traffic.
As an FYI: this set up is vulnerable to ARP spoofing. I personally wouldn’t use any ISP-owned routers other than for NAT.
It forces you to review the share settings when you log in for the first time. I just encountered it on my Wife’s account. It’s not like they just sent an email saying “check your settings.” Again, I get the frustration with opt-out, I’m annoyed, too. However, people are definitely overreacting.