In Defense of Dumb TVs

Re:In Defense of Dumb TVs by panta82 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:31PM (#26289860)

I bought a Sony smart TV about a year ago. I don't get ads per say, but there is a prominent area in the main menu where Sony wants to shill their services and that can't be turned off. Also, TV has to be restarted every week or two (it's android).

On the other hand, I love that I can easily cast screen from my laptop or photos from phone using built in chromecast.

Smart TVs are a mixed bag.

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Re:In Defense of Dumb TVs by lostlogin on Sunday February 28, 2021 @02:13AM (#26291310)

I have a Sony too, and it’s a little too chatty for my liking. I blocked port 53 unless it came from my own dns and added the below to my blocklist on a pihole. It’s deeply imperfect but has blocked a lot of their crap. I had to whitelist one Netflix domain.

https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar...

Edit: I just checked. The Sony TV made 8249 requests in the last 24 hours. I have more locking down to do.

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Re:In Defense of Dumb TVs by jjgreen on Sunday February 28, 2021 @06:26AM (#26292579)

per se https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/per-se

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