Vizio, take the hint and open up your full stack. Become the hacker’s TV. We’ll write cool stuff that you can use for free (like you’re already doing) and we’ll get to shut off your shitty telemetry in our own firmwares.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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I'll say one word: WRT54G.
You put the hackers in control and otherwise mediocre hardware can become iconic and shape the future of your brand. (It's funny that you now see the second-gen "looks like a low-poly WRT54G" routers in thrift shops due to wi-fi churn)
OTOH will it be harder with video, if every third party integration is demanding DRM blobs, than with RF which is justjust a federal offense if misused?
That would cause them to lose money
They make money from selling your data and showing you ads.
You can't override contracts terms that take priority (GPL, which you as developers already agreed to when redistributing it) with a second one (their own ToS).
GPL explicitly prohibits adding restrictions, so attempting to claim the ToS severs their GPL right is invalid because it is GPL which instead overrides that term in the ToS.
Hints? No, that's absolutely guaranteed by GPL, backed by decades of precedent. This is an open-and-shut case.
Plot twist: Vizio monitors become the new WRTG