[washadjeffmad]

Vendors provide "commercial" displays whose only differences are better warranties, more complete serial control and, you guessed it, no ads or SMART features. Some have a web accessible menu, and others you can buy a separate service remote for to program the panel exactly as you need it to function.

In general, there's no reason to network connect your TV, but if you do, and they won't they don't tell you this, you don't have to accept the TOS for the SMART features or data collection. The TV will still work.

[than3]

You won't necessarily have the choice about not connecting to the internet.

Also, providers have implicitly forced you to agree to ToS to use the device by not returning it and bundling a take it or leave it agreement with the TV.

If you want to watch TV, this is your only option. That's not even getting into the mesh networks, or the obvious expansion of those networks to their trucks.