I have one of the TVs mentioned in the article, a TCL Roku TV, and I do the same as you: Apple TV only, never hooked the TV up to the internet. Very reliable, cheap, and dumb.
I think most people just balk at the price of an external media device when their TV has “it” (but of course not the same quality “it”) built in, and so they end up with a crappy, data-mining, ad-riddled, experience. You get what you pay for.
I think most people just balk at the price of an external media device when their TV has “it” (but of course not the same quality “it”) built in, and so they end up with a crappy, data-mining, ad-riddled, experience. You get what you pay for.