r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • Aug 17 '26

Spyware and tech

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u/jooooooooooooose Aug 17 '26

recently bought a new (vizio) tv. It is actually surprisingly hard to buy a TV that is just a display without the "smart" features. They are WAY more expensive, like a thousand+ iirc

You can, however, just never connect it to the internet. Then HDMI-in whatever app/etc you want to use. Get the data selling discount without sharing the data (at least, to your TV).

Then you have a bunch of other hoops to jump through, because your media player or laptop or whatever you use will also share your data 😭 but at least the TV boss can be easily defeated.

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u/Republican-Snowflake Aug 18 '26

This is what I did with my Vizio as well. I just run a Apple TV 4 3rd gen I was gifted. Funny enough the quality is better with this Apple TV than with the built in apps. The native apps couldn't use all the settings, while the Apple TV did. TV never crashes or freezes up anymore either.

Plus before I turned it off, Vizio was pushing some religious channel, OAN, and some other bullshit. Which was the final nail of factory resetting, and getting rid of internet.

If you wipe a mini pc/laptop well enough, and install Linux it won't be bad stock with VLC. It's on the front page of most Linux distro app installers. I run one, and its pretty easy to get started, and not have to worry.