[skellera]

If you own a Vizio, your viewing data is collected and sold to advertisers anyways. They have ACR software running that can recognize any content playing on the tv. Casted, OTA, streaming… they’re all logged and tracked for advertisers.

Inscape is their ACR/Ads subsidiary. https://www.inscape.tv/

Other TVs are doing similar things but Vizio pioneered it. That’s how they subsidized their TVs to offer the lowest prices and the rest of the industry followed.

Vizio TVs are literally data collection devices.

[gh02t]

Do note that you can opt out of ACR and data collection, though who knows what data they are still harvesting anyway. Most/practically all newer TVs are doing it, even e.g. my high end LG.

Sadly opting out of this junk is the first thing I do on any TV nowadays, along with sticking it in a locked down VLAN if it's mine.

[jonnycoder]

I wrote most of the VIZIO code for consenting and turning on/off the Viewing Data, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. You can easily toggle that stuff in the settings menu and during the Out-of-box-experience.

Last I was there was over a year ago, but VIZIO was one of the first to get in big trouble with the US government due to privacy issues back around 2016 I think? It's on wikipedia if you are curious.