The China angle will grab headlines, but the more uncomfortable truth is that the entire smart TV ad model seems to depend on surveillance most users never fully understood they were opting into

Smart TVs turned into computers with monitors and microphones, except the whole computer part is out of our control and they barely work as a monitor.

Sounds like a thing the EU could regulate for us Europeans.

Though I do not understand why this isn't categorizes as illegitimate spying.

Do NOT connect a machine you don't have control over to the internet. Every machine these days will spy on you

Did they sue Google for reading all your emails? Or Meta for seeing all your personal history? Or Walmart for determining someone's very personal relationships based on their buying patterns? Or just every salesman out there whose job is to be nosy about customer's life and work?

Reminder. Just don't connect a smart tv to the internet.

Easy fix

Good for Texas. State governments often protect us from the federal government. Many laws that we have now were only passed at the federal level when about 2/3 of states previously passed the same laws (e.g., women's voting rights).

This is the same AG who sued Tylenol over autism. While we can applaud the effort (broken clock theory?), it’s all but guaranteed he’s getting paid for helping another entity. Corruption is on the menu and fully expected these days.

It's about time. They should include Vizio as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VIZIO_Official/search/?q=ads

https://www.reddit.com/r/VIZIO_Official/search/?q=advertisin...

It's amazing to see what they have gotten away with in the last few years. The average consumer has no choice and now way to opt out of the nonsense.

Disable Internet connection and just use them as a display.