Smart products themselves are not the issue. The issue is making everything cloud based. The solution is companies designing their products so they can be controlled over the network.
It's a fucking bed! It doesn't need a persistent connection to some server. The problem is that they also want to mine and sell your data.
You are not blocking just Chrome though. You are also blocking Vanadium on GrapheneOS.
To be fair though it works fine with JavaScript disabled. I only enabled JavaScript to test it.