make sure you don't use a Roku to make your TV "smart", because it is phoning home constantly 24/7, especially when you're interacting with the remote or anythi

make sure you don't use a Roku to make your TV "smart", because it is phoning home constantly 24/7, especially when you're interacting with the remote or anything in the OS. If it can't phone home for a while and it's aggressively blocked, the OS will interfere with other apps, preventing them from running until the Roku stick can phone home. Amazon FireTV also phones home quite a bit , but since it runs android you can sideload a firewall like Netguard to try and contain some of the telemetry and usage data being siphoned off the device