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Android TV is not free though.
You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for "personalized ads"..
Depends on the launcher you use.
That's... Not at all how it works.
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Launcher on android is just that - an app to launch other apps. Other apps can and do run in the background, without ever being explicitly launched. Think play services, location provider, wifi connection manager, etc. Since google runs its stuff at the highest level - nothing can hide from it. Other apps, like netflix, utilise internal telemetry. Assholes like facebook push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.
TL;DR - custom launcher cool, but no cure.
Not a cure, but does stop me seeing ads. And frankly of you don't want anyone to know what you're watching, you wouldn't be on Netflix either.
But my point remains that Android TV is still a better legal media player than a PC.