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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs

• jfengel 5y ago
  That doesn't seem surprising to me. If your plan is to sell data, then you want to get your device out as far as possible. That means cutting the price to the minimum. You'd give it away, if you could. So making more money on the spying than on the device sounds like the plan working as designed. It doesn't say anything about the counterfactual (how much would they make if they stopped selling data and instead tried to turn a profit on price and features). I'd imagine that their marketing department has a good guess.