How does it do at detecting the emotion of being incredibly angry the TV I paid good money to OWN, is wasting my time, power, bandwidth, screen space and patience pushing ads I don't want at me? That emotion is so intense it should be easily detectable from orbit.

How can someone write an entire article about this without any mention of how totally creepy it is.

My LG had an update last week that made me re-do all the user agreements. I don't know if that has anything to do with this. As always, I opted out of most of the agreements, but (as always) there are 2 agreements I cannot opt out of and still use any apps.

So...what set-top boxes are available for privacy minded people?

I believe LG’s unfucked TVs are marketed as commercial TVs [1].

[1] https://www.lg.com/global/business/commercial-tv

The next time I buy a TV, I'm building a Faraday cage around it.

How far will people let this go just to save a few bucks on a big TV? I'd just rather not have a TV at all. I imagine the next thing will be webcams that analyze your expressions to get your true emotional reaction to everything. People will still be fine with this if they can get a 75 inch TV for $150.

I don’t give my tv internet access and use apple tv and an hdmi cable. Works fine.