Monday, November 9, 2015

Yet another no-buy brand: Vizio

OK guys, I know, consumer electronics is a cut-throat business, but it wasn't that long ago that I held up LG as a no-buy... so, why, Vizio, why are you so intent on one-upping their crappiness?  I mean, bad enough you're also "opting in" people to your spying schemes without their consent, but analyzing displayed content, regardless of source, to better feed advertisers, and tying that information to the IP address where the TV is in use, the better to let advertisers use that info to shape ads for other devices in the house... "intrusive" doesn't begin to describe it.

At this point, I almost hope more manufacturers take this track, if only to create sufficient market for a "dumb" TV to flourish again.

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