Vizio TVs Will Now Require a Walmart Account

After being bought out by Walmart in 2024, “select new Vizio OS TVs“ will require a Walmart account to function properly, a representative told Ars Technica.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/27/vizio-tvs-will-now-require-a-walmart-account

It’s such news items where PG rules should allow for a more proper, honest, and an accurate response to such news - with explicit profanity and warranted insults to the bastardization of tech, and even common sense.

Sounds about Walmart. They don’t even accept Tap To Pay in 2026.

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