How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking

Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by andrepd on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:01AM (#46253965)

How would you block ads on such a TV? The problem is you still cannot connect it to the internet without unknown privacy intrusion... Maybe to the LAN only? But then it's usefulness is still limited.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by duskdozer on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:03AM (#46254565)

hosts file block?

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by andrepd on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:51PM (#46256404)

Block what? Which domains? How do you know what the TV will connect to?

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by dh2022 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @01:07PM (#46256533)

Block everything except for what you want. For e.g. block everything but Netflix.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by prmoustache on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:30PM (#46259260)

It can be complicated when streaming companies use same cloud vendors and thus share same ip ranges as the traffic you want to protect yourself from.

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by nolok on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:33AM (#46255781)

Pi hole is enough for me on a modern Samsung

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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking by andrepd on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:52PM (#46256410)

So, entirely orthogonal to the issue of rooting the TV?

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