The Cost of Cheap TVs

Re:The Cost of Cheap TVs by nfca on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:23PM (#34238262)

Is router or DNS level ad-blocking an option for those of us who are more technically savvy? e.g. https://NextDNS.io

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Re:The Cost of Cheap TVs by zikduruqe on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:34PM (#34238411)

Not if your TV is hardcoded to use 8.8.8.8

Looking at you TCL.

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Re:The Cost of Cheap TVs by alexwasserman on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:35PM (#34239724)

You could catch and redirect all port 53 traffic to a local Pi-hole (or similar dns server) to respond with whatever you want

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Re:The Cost of Cheap TVs by dimensi0nal on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @09:51PM (#34241362)

...and this is why there's a push for DNS over HTTPS/DNS over TLS

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Re:The Cost of Cheap TVs by alexwasserman on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:48PM (#34241776)

And I’m not sure which is worse here. Devices on my network I can’t control, or protocols so easily circumvented.

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Re:The Cost of Cheap TVs by TheHappyOddish on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:05AM (#34298780)

Which is why I rooted my TV, install my CA on it and forced it through my squid proxy that does SSL bumping.

My network, my rules.

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