I wonder what it would look like for my TV to be connected and sending my viewing habits back to the manufacturer without a method for me to turn it off. 5G makes this idea much easier.
Phone companies can get contracts with all these device manufacturers and make money that way.
If you have cable, satellite, or streaming this already happens. The only way to watch TV without being watched is to use an antenna or local storage.
Pi-hole[1] might still help at the moment, until the TVs start coming with their own SIM cards.
In any case, I wouldn't use a TV as anything more than an extra large monitor for Raspberry Pi running something like Kodi[2].
[2] https://kodi.tv/
There's no way this can be cheaper, especially in the US where carriers are currently charging $10-20 per device per month. I can imagine a dystopian future where device vendors think "x% of people can't figure out how to connect to their own WiFi, so let's ship a 5G radio with Verizon eSIM instead and make up the extra cost with more privacy-invading ads" but I'm going to ragequit the Internet if that happens.
Seems disgustingly plausible, tbh.