[zie]

An Apple TV 4k: https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-4k/

It will just work. You will maybe get an ad or two from Apple, rarely, about Apple services, but it's very rare and easy to ignore.

Otherwise you only get ads if your service(Netflix, etc) delivers ads.

Apple won't share your data with anyone, and generally does a fairly decent job(compared to other giant tech companies) of not collecting much.

[rebeccaskinner]

The only acceptable number of ads is zero.

[zie]

Good luck with that, no company anywhere offers no ads.

[pavel_lishin]

Which is why things like The Pirate Bay remain popular.

[SomeUserName432]

My main peeve with the Apple TV (device) is that the home button keeps sending me into Apple TV (App) instead of to the main screen.

I have to click it twice to get back to the home screen.

[bollos]

As is also commented, within the device settings you change the behaviour to be a home button.

You should also be able to hold the ‘menu’ or ‘<‘ button, depending on which remote you have, to directly go to the home page

[10729287]

Just dig into the menu, that's an option if I remember well.