Not every Jellyfin user is also the server administrator. If someone sets up a server and shares that server with 5 people, most of those users aren't concerned with the privacy implications of how they connect to the server; they just want to consume content as easily as they do with Netflix, Disney, etc.

I do? I don't love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.

I would like a less smart tv but I don't want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.

So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV

Having a smart tv doesn't mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don't need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.

This feels like some really niche gatekeeping.

Family connect to my server with tv. If tv is in the same house everything is blocked and select things are whitelisted.

It's handy to share media with my family! The Roku app works OK

We have both.

Kodi use Jellyfin for its media library and Kodi is excellent for a lot of the TV we watch. catch Up TV has replaced the decoder for watching terrestrial TV.

One thing that sucks in Kodi though is Arte (a franco-german channel that is a leans towards "intellectual"). For that, the LG WebOS app is much better than the Kodi add-on. Other than that 1 app, we could happily plug Kodi into digital signage panel if they weren't stupidly expensive.

It's relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.

There's a funny one-click tool here: https://github.com/Jellyfin2Samsung/Samsung-Jellyfin-Installer but I guess it's not necessary anymore

Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner's parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I'm super glad the app is on the app store, but it's just bad timing for me lol

I use libux btw

I'd rather use an Android TV box, so I can have Dolby Vision, etc.

Apparently they will try to connect to open networks and try to tunnel through to get internet, so I set bogus manual DNS, gateway, and ip info so it can't connect to anything correctly.

Yeah, I've had to help two friends connect to my server from Samsung TVs. It was annoying to say the least.