But that individual ad impression that someone paid for that I did not click (or blocked) does not know that.
I am not so sure about this part. Google and Facebook have contracts with credit card companies, payment terminals, big chain retail stores, etc. to connect purchases made at retail stores to digital identities of the buyers. Of course, a lot of the details of these contracts are carefully kept private. The physical purchase instead of online purchase is not enough these days to stop the tracking.
Agree with you on everything you say.
I am nevering changing my 10 year old 1080p "dumb" TV because I don't want anything that is remotely smart. I'm happy connecting either Chromecast or some other streaming stick to it.
My hope is that as these "smart" TVs start running full fledge android OS, we might get a group of developers like the original Cyanogen folks who would develop ROMs that can be flashed on top of all the crapware that TV companies install. I would happily give up hardware warranty to get away from shitty bloatware.
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