Do you own a smart TV? If it's a Vizio, advertisers may know your viewing habits!
Vizio is being sued for tracking viewers' program preferences and selling that data to advertisers. I wonder if it's just Vizio? Maybe some of the other TV manufacturers haven't been caught yet. After all, this is the same concept as most Internet sites tracking your browsing data and then tailoring advertising to your tastes. Television is behind the curve in that regard, so the pressure is on to keep pace.
Starting in 2014, Vizio made TVs that automatically tracked what consumers were watching and transmitted that data back to its servers. Vizio even retrofitted older models by installing its tracking software remotely. All of this, the FTC and AG allege, was done without clearly telling consumers or getting their consent.
What did Vizio know about what was going on in the privacy of consumers’ homes? On a second-by-second basis, Vizio collected a selection of pixels on the screen that it matched to a database of TV, movie, and commercial content. What’s more, Vizio identified viewing data from cable or broadband service providers, set-top boxes, streaming devices, DVD players, and over-the-air broadcasts. Add it all up and Vizio captured as many as 100 billion data points each day from millions of TVs.
Vizio then turned that mountain of data into cash by selling consumers’ viewing histories to advertisers and others. And let’s be clear: We’re not talking about summary information about national viewing trends. According to the complaint, Vizio got personal. The company provided consumers’ IP addresses to data aggregators, who then matched the address with an individual consumer or household. Vizio’s contracts with third parties prohibited the re-identification of consumers and households by name, but allowed a host of other personal details – for example, sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education, and home ownership. And Vizio permitted these companies to track and target its consumers across devices.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/what-vizio-was-doing-behind-tv-screen
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so NO one knows about me! 
my initial point was that (in my experience) you could use a Roku most everywhere as long as you have WiFi. But I could be wrong. 
It can be done - if you have a smart TV just don't hook it into your Wifi router. Oh and this is further proof that the marketing and advertising industry ruins everything. 
Watcha watching, Hoyt???
You can opt out but they track anyway if they want. Honestly I don't really care if they want to know that I like Star Trek: TOS reruns entirely too much. Look at it this way, it's a round about way to become a Nielsen family
Ad dollars talk and low viewership walks. With an expanded pool of data maybe the better television will be produced.. Or we could end up with more dreck. Bah, never mind, we'll probably all end up with more dreck.
