Every TV does that unfortunately. It's called automatic content recognition but every manufacturer has a different euphemism for it.
It's definitely not just Samsung. As bad as this is. The problem is bigger than just them.
It's definitely not just Samsung. As bad as this is. The problem is bigger than just them.
Annoying but not a huge deal. I imagine this will slowly get worse as more people learn to not connect it to WiFi.
Also of course all the smart tv features don’t work, and a lot more folks than I ever imagined actually use the built in controller (usually some form of Android or Roku) to watch Netflix and whatnot. And a lot of folks actually do watch the built in TV “channels” a lot of vendors ship with.
It seems very few people buy an additional device like an Apple TV or Nvidia Shield.
You can still set up a temporary WiFi and just kill it after but it's getting pretty insane now.