[hadlock]

We bought our samsung in 2016 and in... 2018 it started showing us ads, and then later they installed the "tv plus", uh, "feature". Which you can't uninstall so every time your toddler bumps the channel button on the remote, it will kick you out of whatever netflix/youtube/disney+ thing you're watching to go to some ad-supported BS. Over the years the UI has gone from good to almost unusably slow and laggy. Next time we move, we're trashing the 2016 samsung and getting something else, and never ever hooking it up to wifi.

When I bought a samsung tv for my home office, I explicitly never enabled the wifi, and plugged in an external FAANG device with a remote and control the TV via that. If the device gets buggy I can go buy a new one for $60.