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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by UncleSlacky on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:28AM (#24625962)
Pi-Hole would probably do the trick: https://pi-hole.net/
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by kxrm on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:37AM (#24626419)
Just an fyi, it's good to setup firewall redirection from suspicious devices as well.

For my Roku I have setup a redirection for all DNS port queries to my pihole as some app developers are getting wise to this and using their own DNS.

It won't be long until they encrypt this traffic and lock us out completely though.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by rvwaveren on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:36AM (#24626022)
Yes, that works! I have a Samsung Frame + PiHole. Incredible amount of network requests are blocked now.
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by mercora on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:56AM (#24626171)
i tried blocking DNS or whitelisting and you probably see that large amount of blocked requests because it tries like every second if you refuse the response.
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