Too many of the responses to this article have focused on jail breaking IMO - we should be focused instead on the actual problem of the advertising being inject

Too many of the responses to this article have focused on jail breaking IMO - we should be focused instead on the actual problem of the advertising being injected and the surveillance being used to target ads. TVs have a design life of three years and often ship design changes during different manufacturing runs, so jail breaking every variation of every device when the manufacturer is potentially working against you isn’t feasible. It’s a small percentage of the population that could do any one model of one device. I’d also suggest dropping “smart TVs” in favor of monitors and a sound bar might be a an option, however Roku already took it to the next level by implementing a similar scheme on their devices. If Amazon, Google, and Apple followed then you’d just be in the same situation again. So again IMO better to attack the problem in general rather then a particular make or model.