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Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by sjwright on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:02AM (#21014263)
A pi-hole only works against adversaries that rely upon DNS, or haven't been coded to connect directly to "trusted" public DNS servers.

(I'm almost astonished that advertising networks haven't switched to using raw IP addresses everywhere.)

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Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by TremendousJudge on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:43AM (#21017266)
You could probably very easily make a list of the "evil" IP addresses if that happened
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Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by tlavoie on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:45PM (#21029334)
You can combine approaches of course. My main in-home DNS, per the DHCP settings on the wi-fi, is a Pi-Hole. Secondary DNS is the pfSense firewall, so nothing's dead in the water if the Raspberry Pi falls over for some reason.

The firewall has the same DNS block-lists as the Pi-Hole, but also has subscription lists of IPs to avoid. Most of those are spammers or malware, but can include whatever other category of malfeasance you desire.

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