Why is my unused Vizio TV sending gigabytes of traffic every day?
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#2Interesting question and I agree.
Also, what are you "unusing" it for exactly that requires it to have power?
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#3Interesting question and I agree. Also, what are you "unusing" it for exactly that requires it to have power?
Just have it powered on for my Apple TV, I never use any of the features of the TV, but I did connect it to the WiFi when I first set it up.
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#4I don't understand what would possess anyone to hand over their wifi creds to a TV. Sounds like you should change your wifi pass.
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#5Well it's not just you [1]. I don't have any data to support it, but I'm personally guessing either it's a ridiculously massive update, some overzealous ACR, or they may have setup some kind of p2p streaming system for who knows what reason. If you don't want to turn off wi-fi to the TV entirely, maybe try disabling ACR [2] to see if that does anything.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/VizioTV/comments/96gtti/vizio_tv_us...
[2] https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
Re: Why is my unused Vizio TV sending gigabytes of traffic every day?
#6Well it's not just you [1]. I don't have any data to support it, but I'm personally guessing either it's a ridiculously massive update, some overzealous ACR, or they may have setup some kind of p2p streaming system for who knows what reason. If you don't want to turn off wi-fi to the TV entirely, maybe try disabling ACR [2] to see if that does anything. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/VizioTV/comments/96gtti/vizio_tv_us…
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#7I would be upset if my tv sent a single byte of information out. I use an old lcd and if it ever dies, I just don’t even know what we’ll do. Can you even buy TVs anymore that don’t spy on you?
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#8I would be upset if my tv sent a single byte of information out. I use an old lcd and if it ever dies, I just don’t even know what we’ll do. Can you even buy TVs anymore that don’t spy on you?
Yes. Sceptre is a good brand for dumb TVs.
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#9Any .pcap data? Maybe we could see the domains being called?
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#10I would be upset if my tv sent a single byte of information out. I use an old lcd and if it ever dies, I just don’t even know what we’ll do. Can you even buy TVs anymore that don’t spy on you?
You could just not configure the network on a smart TV if you can’t find a dumb one.