Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves

Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by LeoPanthera on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:38PM (#29219918)

Yes I suppose that's true. Tracking can at least be defeated by simply not connecting to the internet.

Some TVs with ads actually have ads pre-loaded on them, so not connecting them isn't sufficient to defeat the ads.

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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by codezero on Sunday November 14, 2021 @03:32PM (#29220388)

This is until they start using 5G or LoRa to make a mesh to get around that.

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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by thantik on Sunday November 14, 2021 @04:24PM (#29220867)

Amazon's Smarthome stuff offers basically a bluetooth side-channel specifically for this purpose. It's called "Amazon Sidewalk", and they are already using it for Tile trackers, Ring Doorbell stuff (the doorbell even acts as a mesh point for this in some models)

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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by codezero on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:42PM (#29221454)

Yep, eventually this technology will be worthwhile for folks with less scale to implement. Maybe Amazon will license access to Sidewalk. I believe Apple does a similar thing with their devices.

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