Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ...
by sneak on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:57PM
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Updating the firmware is the reason you never connect it to the network!
If the firmware from the factory doesn't work, return it. If it does, never, ever connect it to a network, because it may stop working, start spying, or show ads.
Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ...
by 0x0nyandesu on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:36PM
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Kinda have no choice these days. Have a brand new house and want a 65 inch 4k OLED panel? Welp you're getting a smart tv. I found the Sony Bravia line to be the "cleanest" firmware. It's Android so you can do quite a lot to hack it to your advantage.
Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ...
by 0x0nyandesu on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:39AM
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Down vote all you want but when your wife asks you why you don't have a TV in your brand new house you're gonna cave like a deck of cards in a hurricane.
Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ...
by chasil on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:33AM
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I upvoted, sorry for the adverse responses.
Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ...
by anuvrat1 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:12PM
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Isn't that "little inconvenience" the money you are saving going with Vizio?
You get an excellent display for the price, use it as a display only and for updates thumb drive is your best friend.
Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ...
by emodendroket on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:30PM
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Well, not really, since the better TVs are also smart TVs.
I could keep it disconnected from my home network, except perhaps occasionally to update the firmware. Otherwise, all network content would come from a device in which I could place some level of trust.
Alternately, I could put it behind a Gargoyle router set to push all content through Tor. That would render some network content inaccessible, and Vizio itself might block Tor exit nodes.
Each of these choices introduces inconvenience and reduces function, but right now I would not trust my activity to Vizio, after seeing this financial reporting.