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Smart TV's are stupid. The only time you should connect one is to update it if it has features that were added after it was shipped. Then it should be taken back off the internet and hooked to a laptop/pc/etc to do all of your streaming.

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>Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there’s a good chance the set won’t work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December 2024, announced this week that select newly purchased Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features. Since 2024, Vizio TVs have required a Vizio account, which a Vizio OS website says is necessary for accessing “exclusive offers, subscription management, and tailored support.” Accounts are also central to Vizio’s business, which is largely driven by ads and tracking tied to its OS.

Smart TV's are stupid. The only time you should connect one is to update it if it has features that were added after it was shipped. Then it should be taken back off the internet and hooked to a laptop/pc/etc to do all of your streaming. Archive: https://archive.today/vdNEl From the post: >>Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there’s a good chance the set won’t work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December 2024, announced this week that select newly purchased Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features. Since 2024, Vizio TVs have required a Vizio account, which a Vizio OS website says is necessary for accessing “exclusive offers, subscription management, and tailored support.” Accounts are also central to Vizio’s business, which is largely driven by ads and tracking tied to its OS.
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[–] • 1 pt

I have some vizio’s in the guest rooms. They have smart shit that I never enabled, never hooked them to the network.

Used to Roku but they continue to kill it with more and more telemetry and updates that crush the device so it’s slow as fuck. So moved to crappletv.

Run dns blocks for all that shit to minimize the chatting back home.

It’s almost impossible to buy a non smart tv.

You’d think th xdev or what ever that site was for android (and before win phones) would be building replacement firmware.

The fire TV is about insufferable. You almost have r to get it online to even use it.

Roku tv is about the same.

Amazing and Vizio at least work (did a year ago) with out connection.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, I just have a old mini-pc attached to my TV(s).

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I moved to apple so my local only cameras could “popup” pip