Vizio TVs are literally botnet

Anyone that buys a smart TV is retarded anyways, why integrate a computer that will be far more outdated sooner than the panel will go out of use?

Bought a $350 50" Changhong TV about 4 years ago and bought a $40 Android box - already better than a smart TV.

>>58832031
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>>58832031
>android box
>not htpc
pfff

>>58831993
TV makers dont know what the consumer wants, and the more they try, the harder it breaks their collective brains.

See: 3D TVs, Smart TV, IoT TVs, infinity and a half "proprietary" features which are shitty repackages of existing standards, on and on and on.

If they would just make a high quality, dumb, cheap TV, and shout from the mountain tops about how dumb and simple it is while being high quality, it would sell like hotcakes. But that will never ever happen.

lmao, how many passwords do you think this thing has collected

>y-you've got nothing to fear g-goy!!! n-nothing t-to hide, n-nothing to fear!

>>58831993
So basically if you're running non free software or a non free OS now days on a machine that's connected to the internet, some company is more than likely datamining you. Other great examples:
>games like Osu! sending pictures to a server somewhere
>ereaders storing data on what books you read and for how long, then uploading that data when you connect to the internet

Where the fuck did everything go oh so very wrong?

>>58831993
>he doesn't have a hardware firewall
idiot

>>58832582
>has to install a firewall so that companies don't abuse his privacy

Couldn't make this shit up

>>58832751

this is something you should be doing already

>tfw bsd box firewall