You should watch the gamers nexus video. The LG TVs they tested automatically look for open wifi networks to connect to and once connected to a network scan for all devices on the same network and send that back to the mothership.

Can you elaborate? A VPN would hide their IP address from the entry node which is a good thing, right?

I just tried again today and updates work again. I didn’t change anything from yesterday.

I just checked and get the same error.

I browse YouTube on brave browser with VPN and not logged in. The YT front page is blank until I start watching videos, then I get recommendations based on what I’ve watched during that session.

We share the same birthday but I was born in 1969