I own a relatively new (2025) Samsung TV. I kept getting weirdly targeted ads

It's sort of insane that this only gets 35 points on hacker news. Something is wrong.

Just purchased a TV - TCL - and was pleasantly surprised to find it has a basic TV mode. ie enough to feed in HDMI

Still trying to figure out whether it’s safe to update it

thing is that there is one file system, and your on it along with everyone and everything else, and "security" is pretending not to know that, like has been multiply demonstrated with php, in that if you press enough buttons fast enough, it rolls over and piddles everything everywhere, which is something that the samsung advertisers are ,like I said, pretending, they cant do, just somehow have automated the aglomeration of peoples data, and please buy this toothbrush, we are SURE you will like it AGAIN, please, BLUE handle with green bristles right, right, heres a pic of you scanning it, we have a sku, and your credit card info, do you want it delivered at home, work, or drone dropped through the sunroof of your car, innnnnn 27 min on your way home? just scream in silent horror for, yes!

On the surface this looks like an absolutely massive GDPR violation, if they sell them like this in the EU they could get into a lot of trouble over this.