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Re:Kodi 19.0 by dexterdog on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:14PM (#26215668)
Samsung TVs are so horrible with spyware that it is best to keep them off the network and use an attached device like a Shield or Roku. This is also true with most other "smart TVs"
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Re:Kodi 19.0 by kyriakos on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:59PM (#26216084)
I understand the spyware part but one thing i noticed is that i dont get any ads which a lot of people I saw complaining about online. I think ads are location based and i'm outside their zone.
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Re:Kodi 19.0 by dexterdog on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:48AM (#26223878)
Do you have a pihole on your network?
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Re:Kodi 19.0 by kyriakos on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:29AM (#26224240)
no but from what I read Samsung uses their own hardcoded DNS on their TVs to bypass DNS filtering
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