72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by heavyset_go on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:34PM (#25316976)

> Just be aware DNS over HTTPS is a thing now, and while the devices I’m responsible for aren’t going to try and evade your redirects, the companies that are trying to make sure ads get delivered will absolutely switch to DoH which will be much more difficult to work around.

I've been running PiHole-like software on my network for a few years now. A couple of years ago, it would block over 40% of traffic consistently. I never saw ads, and it was nice.

In the last year, blocked traffic has dropped to about 15%, and I'm increasingly getting ads on my phone and Chromecast despite tunneling my traffic through my ad-blocked network and blocking Google's DNS at the network level.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by tamrix on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:16PM (#25319379)

Search up some more blocklists online which are still being updated. It can use the same block lists browsers ad blocks use.

Run 'update your block lists' on your Pihole to make sure the lists are being updated correctly.

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