Never connect a smart TV to the internet. Use it as a dumb screen with your choice of media device.

Here's the linked text version of the report: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/research/smart-tv-data-priva...

Not long until these TVs start partnering with Amazon and other providers to send traffic automatically through near-by devices like smart speakers, disconnecting will be impossible.

Vast majority won't know or care.

The way this gets fixed is laws not workarounds unfortunately.

are they also doing the meta thing like the algorithms and all