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This is why I keep an external Roku box. I learned my lesson with an LG TV. Nothing bad ever happened but, my Pihole logs were filled with blocked requests from my TV.

Fortunately, it died about 3 years after purchasing. My new Samsung TV has never been connected to my network.

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