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.
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.
On the side of TV, it is also bad.
Therefore, both the TV and the OS have blame in this.
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.
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.
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.