[dcd0101]

My Vizio replaced its built-in, vanilla Chromecast capability with a conventional “smart tv” interface that I didn’t want. And to be able to use that, they force you to accept a TOS that includes monitoring.

Worse, I couldn’t tell it to stop connecting to my WiFi after all this happened. I had to ban the TV from my LAN and change the WiFi credentials.

I spent a lot of money on that TV, only to have it go rogue on me.

[Washuu]

The VERY first thing the LG television I bought did was show me an advertisement. I had to blocked its MAC address from the router.