I was pretty much committed to never buying a Vizio product just based on my experience with their quality and other reports about their "smart" embedded software, but this pretty much seals it. Samsung has been getting pretty bold here too.

I really prefer the free market to correct this kind of abuse, but I'm not sure how that works when they're all doing it. Theoretically everyone could just stop buying TVs but that's not going to happen. So it's just death by a thousand papercuts (abuses) I guess. Very sad.