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As someone who hasn't used windows since Win7, I'm amazed people are blaming windows for this. While all software is buggy to some extent, Hisense TV is probab
by thsksbd 2y ago
As someone who hasn't used windows since Win7, I'm amazed people are blaming windows for this.
While all software is buggy to some extent, Hisense TV is probably maliciously changing their UUID so users cant block their telemetry, or their ads, etc.
- kentrado 2y agoLets say it isn't a TV but a malicious person trying to cause damage to your system. It is a security issue on the side of the OS. On the side of TV, it is also bad. Therefore, both the TV and the OS have blame in this.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago> Hisense TV is probably maliciously changing their UUID so users cant block their telemetry I'm not sure it will. If this was a scenario that caused DHCP to continually issue new IPs - this will likely cause operational issues. Two I can think of are DHCP exhaustion and routine loss of device connectivity.
- pquki4 2y agoWhy is UUID related to telemetry? If you use router level AdBlock -- that is, DNS filtering -- lots of ads and telemetry go away by themselves, and what UUID is used is irrelevant. Of course, most people don't do that, but still I don't see how changing the UUID helps prevent blocking telemetry/ads.
- rpozarickij 2y ago> Hisense TV is probably maliciously changing their UUID so users cant block their telemetry, or their ads, etc. I'm not defending Hisense and I'm not saying that this can't be the intention but it's a good idea to keep Hanlon's razor in mind in situations like this.
- indrora 2y agoApplying hanlons razor to this (as another comment has) this is likely some process that either a) fails to store or b) doesn't bother storing the UUID and thus generates a fresh new one every time it runs, which must be pretty often, and thus causes this.