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Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.
(arstechnica.com)
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I have a vizio television. It is very sore sometimes that I won't connect it to the internet, but then I just reset it and it forgets it was sore.
I won't let it update its firmware because I expect it won't let me use it without an internet connection if I do.
"Won't let me use it w/o an internet connection" would be such an insane choice on the part of the manufacturer; I hope you're wrong!! But yeah, better to not update just to be safe.