I just started banning certain vendors altogether. With TVs it means I usually stick to Sony. It's a compromise because I genuinely like Sony's TVs and it's inc

I just started banning certain vendors altogether. With TVs it means I usually stick to Sony. It's a compromise because I genuinely like Sony's TVs and it's increasingly harder to find good TVs here that aren't extremely user-hostile re: analytics. It looked like Sony are the lightest offender without going for a dramatically worse TV, they have one ACR toggle but I plan to switch it off and maybe even delete the package via ADB. My parents insisted on a Xiaomi TV because it's much cheaper, so we agreed on just not connecting it to the internet. I set up a one-off personal hotspot to update it (in case they fixed bugs in the ISP or such), then killed the hotspot. With them it's more of a (irrational?) suspicion in Xiaomi rather than anything proven, e.g.: I wouldn't dare touch Samsung until they stop selling what are essentially data-harvesting ad displays.