Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by digitalsushi on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:42PM (#22184940)

I wish someone would make a router with a subscription service for blocking these connections that in no way benefit me. Throw a nice cpu in the router, make it L7. Charge me 5 bucks a month, I'll pay it so long as you never once challenge my trust in you, future router OS provider.

I can't manage this per device. Some, I don't want to, and most, I can't. Let's move the bandaid from the fingers to the wrist. Sell me a privacy aware router that sends 30% of my packets to 0.0.0.0.

Yes, yes it will be another page from the arm's race. Yes, websites will stop rendering content for not letting the tracking get through. I don't care, I live a year at a time and that is how this race is run. We won't win it, but we can die before we finish.

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by Night_Thastus on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:07PM (#22185209)

This is the purpose of something like PiHole.

While an ad-blocker will only work on devices that can install one, a PiHole will drop traffic you don't want regardless of the device requesting it.

Very useful, and no subscription needed.

Is that not sufficient for what you need?

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by digitalsushi on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:46PM (#22186814)

Forgive me, I'm not familiar with pihole's feature set; would this protect from connections not relying on the DNS at all? There is no requirement to use DNS to phone home, and it is protection from that I am interested in - at the packet forwarding level.

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