Fully agree about the televisions, which is really unfortunate - for video, I'm still using a 2003 DLP unit, Ironically from Samsung, which has great quality (hasn't even needed a new bulb yet). but I won't be touching anything new that requires an internet connection, so Samsung will be entirely off the list.

My question is about their phones - what info do we have on Samsung's spying vs Google or others? I won't touch anything Chinese made for the same reason, but worse. Fairphone doesn't seem to be usable in the US.