I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

@burgerdrome that's a nice long list of reasons not to buy a TV running Android!

Long time fan of LG's webOS here, which exhibits very few, if any, of those issues. I can't recommend it enough as a product range

@witewulf @burgerdrome unfortunately, I have one of those, and LG does their best to actively ruin the experience by pushing more and more ads on the screen. Also, the inability to put the TV on it’s own vpn is what I would consider a deal breaker these days. I constantly get Nagged to upgrade the software, which if you wait long enough it’ll just force the update on you with your agreement. No, fuck LG, this is the last time I give them money for this shit.
@AlexanderMars @burgerdrome I strongly recommend running something like pihole on your network to block ads and tracking. I have a separate client group for TVs and streaming devices on my network with a specific blocklist configured for it