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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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