Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

So Vizio is offering dumb TVs without Walmart accounts? I am actually kind of interested.
it’ll still be listening and spying.
Just don’t connect it to the internet 🤷‍♂️
Some devices connect to any open wifi to send analytics. Some devices even have their own modem to always be connected.

Not sure about the “modem” thing, always has worried me though. You mean like an LTE chip?

Guess I don’t think about the open network thing because:

  • Nobody, not even router makers, deliver open network by default anymore

  • I don’t have any other wifi signals in my area other than my own

  • Yes LTE and the like. My car – for instance – is connected 24/7 to the cloud. I can control some functions remotely. The price is probably full tracking of me anf my family.
    Yeah that’s the one thing that worries me about buying a new car. Mine are old right now