One should never use the vendor software shipped on a device, always replace it with a FOSS distro that respects your privacy.

Hopefully the Vizio lawsuit that is going to trial soon will help make that more possible.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

Two recent LWN articles about that:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052842/52c45fb8bcc3fade/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052734/5903e175673caeef/

The tentative ruling in that case isn't overly hopeful, with issues 2 & 3 probably going to be dismissed.