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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by alienfilesystem on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:40PM (#24629981)
Pi-hole. Works like a charm. Also does the same for every device in your house. Moreover, if you don't mind spending an additional $5 a month, set up your Pi-hole in a Digital Ocean droplet and you can blocks ads everywhere YOU happen to be, even on your mobile device.
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by 72deluxe on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:20PM (#24634207)
I run one and it works very well, but I fear the rise of DoH and devices just bypassing your network's DNS settings to query the manufacturer's DNS servers. I think Google devices do this.

A sad world we live in when you have to fight the devices you paid for.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by CameronNemo on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:39PM (#24632013)
Running every dns request to a random DO droplet sounds like it would cause latency. Is there not some public DNS option that blocks ads?
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by alienfilesystem on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:33AM (#24639825)
There is very little latency, actually. If it just for you and/or your family, there is zero appreciable difference.
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