Everyone is talking about facebook but TV manufactures have slowly introduced the perfect Ad machine, that you paid for. It lives in your house, it hears and sees everything and they provide 0 transparency.
Why do people think that if you buy a smart TV, you MUST connect it to the internet?
If you need a large screen, you can still buy a smart TV but simply never connect it to the internet. Or better yet, take it apart and rip out the wifi antenna so it won't connect to your neighbor's open network on its own.
With Facebook, it's not that simple. You're either on there, or missing out and inconveniencing others.
My parents recently bought a Roku TV which indeed had to be connected to the internet. They didn’t care about any smart features they just wanted a cheap TV to watch the local news on. Trying to watch plain OTA TV stations was unbearable as the local channels were mixed in with the “free” internet channels and you couldn’t just skip to the channel you wanted- you had to cycle through. Thankfully they returned it. I told them to buy a dumb tv even if they have to pay more.
