I’m genuinely gonna blow up if I have to spend another second using this thing.
To start, the home screen is chock full of ads and news, literally takes up at least a 1/3 of the screen and its a big ass screen. Then the remote has this scrolly wheel that is also the select button but it scrolls really easily when you press it and if it scrolls it brings up a cursor that completely interrupts what you’re doing. This happens often while typing. Then, should you deign to search a movie on the movie machine, you are faced with multiple instances of the same movie on different platforms. If you, like me, do not know what your parents have full subscription, partial subscription, and no subscriptions to then you will have to click on one of these to find out if it is streamable for a fee, with ads, not at all, not in your zipcode (for which you need to type in your zipcode EVERY TIME), or actually available. This information is not available in the menu so you have to actually go to the application offering the movie. If it is unavailable on that platform and you want to check another platform you can press the back button which brings you back to the homescreen or you can press the home button which brings you back to the homescreen. In either case you will have to navigate to the search button, search the movie again (if you typed the movie using the remote keyboard then you can simply click the presearched title but if you used the mic you have to speak it again), and click another platform only to repeat the process.
IT GENUINELY TOOK ME OVER AN HOUR TO SEARCH UP 10 MOVIES AND NONE OF THEM WERE AVAILABLE!
Almost all modern smart tvs have automatic content recognition so even using Jellyfin means they can profile what you watch and sell it to advertisers. They can also do a bunch of nonsense like look at WiFi networks, Bluetooth devices, paired mobile device ids (do you ever use your phone with a remote app to control it), etc to build a much stronger profile on you as well
The only thing that manages to serve me ads is one mobile game and it’s hilarious how bad its advertising profile of me is. It runs ads in languages I don’t speak for services I would never use in cities I don’t live in.
I can’t give my parents a similar level of protection from advertising, unfortunately.