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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by L_226 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:26AM (#27526191)
FWIW I have a pihole running on my local, but my Samsung TV still shows YT ads because I cannot disable cdn.samsung.com or the TV will not work, and I think the ads are being served via this domain to my TV....
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by kzrdude on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:42AM (#27526304)
Connect your own media center. I use an RPi 4. It can play netflix and youtube in Kodi, for example. Admittedly there are many minor compat issues, of course.
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by L_226 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:40AM (#27526625)
Yup, will check this out thanks
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by Kelteseth on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:33AM (#27526231)
Get yourself a Nvidia shield. It has no advertisement build in and even can turn on and off the host TV. Also, I would advise you to disconnect your smart TV entirely.
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by kzrdude on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:43AM (#27526309)
I just have an RPi 4. The protocol that can turn off and on the tv there is just called CEC and you can make simple scripts with cec-client to trigger it. (Kodi also already uses it.)
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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by croon on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @08:32AM (#27527755)
I have an Nvidia Shield, and ran PiHole for a bit. It didn't block youtube ads for me, but might be regional ranges not being blocked. Eventually I stopped using PiHole since it broke some payment processors at times, and there was no easy way for family members to temp disable it and it became unmanagable.

Loved the concept though.

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Re:Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed ... by L_226 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:40AM (#27526627)
Interesting, I had not seen this.
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