Privacy

Call customer support, say your 90yo dad is staying with you and you need to disable all wireless devices that will interfere with his medical devices.

Ironically enough as it is to believe, the Walmart branded ONN ones are pretty mundane. Spend a little for the more premium model that they sell. It doesn't block you from doing basically anything and they're very vanilla. I don't know if there's any background spying going on from Walmart or not but the OS itself doesn't seem touched, but you can lock it to a VLAN if you want. I consider my entire default routed network hostile and selectively run my PCs on a separate private dns and network. I find it's easier to jail myself than jail the malware every time I buy something new.

I use an nvidia shield. They’re good

Native Google play store. So you can get any app

I have a Formuler Z11 Max and it’s awesome. Though a little pricier. Also have hooked a couple people up with those 29$ Walmart 4K ONN AndroidTV boxes, that are an extremely good box for the value. I live and die by SmartTube.