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Cellular radios and connections are getting cheap enough to embed in the TVs directly, so this is at best a temporary solution.

I just won't buy those TVs.

Once again, this whole idea rears its ugly head. There has never been a TV, let alone a device, that has included a cellular radio to maintain a connection so it can keep tracking you.

Never happened. It’s just a thing we know can happen, but doesn’t for myriad reasons like humans flying in drones.

Isn't it mandatory for new cars in the EU now ?

Cars pretty much all do this now.

Unfortunately a lot of modern TVs have bloated slow UIs, and want to default to showing their "home screen". This makes them much worse experiences for "just show HDMI input".

At a school I was doing IT support for, I had a Hisense TV suddenly refuse to work at all (couldn’t even select HDMI input) until I connected it to the internet and created an account.