This is the same reason I do not want a smart TV. I have one (a Sony), but thankfully it must have lost contact with our WiFi network at some point and I never

This is the same reason I do not want a smart TV. I have one (a Sony), but thankfully it must have lost contact with our WiFi network at some point and I never notice that it does anything other than act as a monitor for our Apple TV. It used to be that it would periodically bug me about software updates and I would endure its dreadful UI just long enough to get through that.