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Roku is every bit as bad. They bricked all customer's previously purchased TVs by implementing a new user agreement through their UI without warning. It couuld not be bypassed. Opting out required first opting in, agreeing to those new terms and then mailing a letter within a very short window with explicit, detailed requirements.
My next TV won't be connected to the Internet and definitely won't be a Roku or Visio product.
Does the TV work as a screen if you factory reset it then never reconnect it to the internet?
Haven't tried that yet. For now I've blocked most of Roku's BS with Adguard Home.
It does. I wound up buying two new TVs because of the thing OP is talking about here. You could actually get around agreeing and then opting out by removing the TV from the network and then restoring it to factory and never reconnecting it.