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Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole

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Re: Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole

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Post by confident_inept »

Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s).

More annoying is the 15 second "home menu" that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there's no option I can find to disable it.

I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.

Re: Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole

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Post by alkonaut »

I just manually unchecked the cookie permissions for a couple of hundred different ad companies on my Samsung TV. Using my remote. Of course there was a button to accept all of them, but not reject them. How one of the worlds largest companies sells stuff that so blatantly violates the GDPR while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me.

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Post by pigbearpig »

"#secure.netflix.com" "#api-global.netflix.com" "#appboot.netflix.com"

These are commented out, but did someone really think the app would still work after blocking these? I get blocking ads, but I don't understand the mindset of someone who wants "smart" features but still wants to block everything.

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Post by Groxx »

confident_inept wrote: post #2

Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s). More annoying is the 15 second "home menu" that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there's no option I can find to disable it. I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.

Computer monitors are overwhelmingly "dumb", as well as having far lower latency and far higher refresh rates.

And also more expensive :) I wish I knew if that was because the crapware and ads on smart TVs are actually reducing the cost, or if it's just that smart TVs use crap hardware and software by comparison. Given how laggy they can be, that wouldn't surprise me.

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Post by black_puppydog »

confident_inept wrote: post #2

Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s). More annoying is the 15 second "home menu" that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there's no option I can find to disable it. I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.

Go without a TV. It's a double win then.

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Post by fire »

confident_inept wrote: post #2

Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s). More annoying is the 15 second "home menu" that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there's no option I can find to disable it. I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.

Is it an LG? ( Mine is under Settings > General > Home Settings > Home Auto Launch )

Re: Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole

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Post by LeoPanthera »

pigbearpig wrote: post #4

"#secure.netflix.com" "#api-global.netflix.com" "#appboot.netflix.com" These are commented out, but did someone really think the app would still work after blocking these? I get blocking ads, but I don't understand the mindset of someone who wants "smart" features but still wants to block everything.

1. It's actually very difficult to buy a non-smart TV. They usually cost more.

2. The comments also serve as a "no really, don't block these" reminder to enthusiastic contributors.

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