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I can always deny internet via MAC address, but a modern panel that just turns on instantly and works is the stuff of dreams.
You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.
The ads on Youtube on my Samsung have recently become super aggressive. - 2x 10-20sec at the beginning of every video (even e.g. 30sec clips) - Then, usually 2mins in the Yt themselves do an ad - After that, at around 3mins, another 2x 10-20sec ad block. I've started to work actively against it now since my viewing experience is suffering. I have a pihole but it doesn't do much.
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.
I bought a Sceptre for a decent price last year. It doesn’t even have internet capability and it’s wonderful.
FYI: These lists integrate quite easily into things other than Pihole that do DNS blocking. I’m using this with a DNSMasq blocklist on an Edgerouter.
Do you have a guide for doing that? I have Edgerouters, and something never set quite well with shunting all the DNS traffic for my network over to a Pi. I do love the adblocking though that it provides. EDIT: did some research after asking like a responsible requester of such information and found https://github.com/britannic/blacklist . Looks promising :) I’d be interested if you settled on another solution.
The DNSMasq blacklist package has a command line to add other blocklists (but you come up with your own name for this list - couldn’t get this in my head when I was first setting it up). Limitations over Pihole is that there no regex and no pretty UI.
I’ve also set up firewall rules to redirect DNS traffic, but not sure how effective this is with DoH becoming mainstream. The guides I’ve found online all use the UI, but would love to be able to find a CLI guide.
Here is the guide I used: https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-...
Also, should have a shoutout for the GRC DNS benchmark to find the fastest DNS relative to me: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
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.
>I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection. I bought a Samsung QLED TV recently, and it works fine without an internet connection. I did give it an ethernet connection to grab firmware updates, and it downloaded a bunch of ads and crap to clutter the home screen. Luckily, unplugging the ethernet cord and factory-resetting the device got rid of the garbage and kept the updated firmware.
Painless experience and no ads.
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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.
I've wondered about this. Are the TV-sized 'gaming monitors' smart tvs? Looking at a couple of OLED ones - Aorus FO48U, Alienware AW5520QF - it doesn't look like it. No wireless, and they are expensive. It's not clear whether they have HDCP, but... surely they must? That's table stakes for a computer monitor.
I don't get it. Also down below there's even a whole comment chain about how "hard it is" to buy a dumb TV. Why bother with all this blocking, just disable the surveillance entirely. Change your wifi password, don't give the new one to the TV, and use a computer as input. A TV is a big dumb monitor, full stop.
The ability to wirelessly transmit to a TV on the LAN, without the ability of the TV to connect to the internet is valuable to me.
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You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.
They don't always support the DRM apps want for 4K streaming.
https://hdfury.com/product/linker-4k60-444-600mhz-scaler/
Even one of these cheap splitters should be able to provide an HDCP-workaround:
That reminds me I need to look at the traffic being requested by our Sony TVs. We recently bought one for the bedroom, and its Android/Google ecosystem seems to work pretty well. Certainly better than the crap I've heard about from LG and Samsung. Our old LG TV stopped working last week, and we're getting a replacement Sony on Monday. I'm hoping the worst features are relatively easy to block with OpenWRT while leavi…