Ilya Pozin, co-founder of free ad-supported streaming television service Pluto TV, willgive you a Telly TVfor free.

They should ensure that they understand the data collection and analytical practices of the company providing the free TV.

And plenty of people agree.

A family using Zoom on the free Telly TV.

Telly

And those figures are from its first financial report in 2020.

Let’s think about that for a second longer.

Vizio is a TV and sound bar manufacturer, not an advertising company.

Telly TV

Telly

And yet it makes almost half of its money from ads.

According to theBusiness Insiderstory,some manufacturers sell this data to third parties.

And if you have any doubts about the huge value of this data, the proof is right here.

It’s so valuable it’s worth designing and giving away a custom TV just to get it.

Brands, in turn, pay for the non-intrusive ad on the Smart Screen.

That’s how you get Telly free.

Plain and simple," says theTelly product page.

In 2015, Samsung got into hot water because its TVs were eavesdropping on owners using their built-in microphones.

And yet, despite these established privacy invasions, people still love free TVs, apparently.