Some smart TVs show ads outright, most of them phone home on the regular with fingerprints of whatever's on screen. If you need any proof that they profit off

Some smart TVs show ads outright, most of them phone home on the regular with fingerprints of whatever's on screen. If you need any proof that they profit off of this, "dumb" equivalents of various models, if they exist at all, tend to be significantly more expensive.