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"Smart" consumer products are intentionally spying on you. Full stop.
That's why it's so hard to find a not "smart" anything. The added material cost is well worth the additional surveillance, be it for the sake of ruling class parasites buying and selling the surveillance data, or for their buddies
This is a big reason that high quality TVs are getting so much more affordable. The revenue from selling data subsidizes the cost to bring the price way down. "Telly" is one such company taking this to the extreme and offering the device to consumers free of charge.
is there a way to remove the offending programs from tv sets?
If it's an android TV you may be able to use a custom ROM on it, otherwise it's unlikely.