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Re:What’s the best non-smart TV sold today? by heyitsme on Saturday December 26, 2020 @02:09PM (#25545592)
Aren't roku devices notorious for gathering data on how you use their hardware and what you watch? In fact as far as I know you can't even use their TVs without actually creating an account with them. If this is still true, it's completely NUTS!
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Re:What’s the best non-smart TV sold today? by unwiredben on Saturday December 26, 2020 @03:40PM (#25546294)
When you set up a Roku TV, you have the option to never connect to the Internet and use it as a dumb TV. In that mode, no WiFi or Ethernet connection is active and there's no connection to a Roku account.

If you've already connected the TV, you can factory reset it to an unconnected state.

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Re:What’s the best non-smart TV sold today? by quaffapint on Saturday December 26, 2020 @02:23PM (#25545700)
Roku does like to log all your actions, but just use something like pi-hole and it's nicely blocked.
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Re:What’s the best non-smart TV sold today? by gruez on Saturday December 26, 2020 @03:50PM (#25546361)
You're placing too much trust into the effectiveness of pi-hole and its associated filter lists. Here are some failure modes I can think of:

* using fallback hardcoded IPs when DNS fails

* using DoH so it's impossible to tamper with the response

* using the same domain for spying as other critical functions

* new domains might not show up on the filter lists right away, and if the TV keeps a backlog of failed requests, all your viewing history might be uploaded when that happens

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