In addition to push notifications, they kept pushing their TV+ app to the first position of my apps selector. I kept removing it. Then I just switched off internet access. Smart TVs are dumb.

I disabled autoupdates on everything after a smart TV whose dashboard I'd laid out to suit me, auto-updated and insisted on dashboard apps that I never wanted and couldn't delete or hide. Got an Apple TV and have not touched the smart TV features since.

Sounds like Vizio. Five years now and I still re-delete the Yahoo Finance app every couple months.

I once connected my vizio tv to the wifi. ended up having to change the wifi password, since there was no way to forget the network on the vizio.

haven't had an update since, and not upset about that.

This might be of use. However I don't blame you for not using it altogether.

https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...

Wow, I didn't know it was that bad! I've never connected my tv's to the internet. I normally run a full PC behind them to access our media and for apps.