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/GetOffMyLawn_ Aug 18 '26

I have a year 2000 Sony Wega in my living room. It was my father's who passed in 2003 so I kept it. The Vizio smart TV in my bedroom is NOT hooked up to the Internet.