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"textContent": "If smart TVs inaugurating an age of pervasive advertising surveillance is tragedy, here comes farce in record time: if you buy a new Vizio TV set, you'll need a Walmart account to go with it.\n\nWithout one, you won't be able to complete setup and access smart features, _Ars Technica's_ Scharon Harding reports. — Read the rest \n\nThe post New Vizio TV? Better have a Walmart account appeared first on Boing Boing.",
"title": "New Vizio TV? Better have a Walmart account"
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