Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**

• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.

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  • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can probably use a pi-hole to block those things.

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    • linkinkampf19@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.

      +1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.

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      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren’t normally making tens of thousands of requests.

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I fucking hate my Roku Tv. One of my roku TV became unusable after software update. Can’t be rolled back. I’m just stuck with a perfectly fine screen and shit software. And yes even connecting another device via HDMI is an issue because the TV restarts randomly for “updates” while watching external sources.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shoutout to the PiHole team. Love you guys and the work you do.

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      • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which smart TV blocklist are you using? Should probably add that into my pihole.

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      • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I really need to get around that on my pfsense

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      • phar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What block list is that?

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    • frokie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, you can’t. I’m running pihole and have a TCL Roku tv connected via HDMI to an Apple TV, and the ROKU APP RECOGNIZES CONTENT FROM IT and makes the suggestion, overlaying it OVER THE HDMI STREAM.

      It’s the worst

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      • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can actually turn that off in the Roku settings. I did when I saw it demanding I watch my content from my PC on their shitty ad bloated sponsors.

        I am now realizing it might be more work than it’s worth for Roku even though I used to prefer their systems being a bit more stable.

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      • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ew that’s approaching dystopian levels of grossness. My tv should not be watching along with me.

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    • RandomPancake@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can, but don’t forget to also block other outbound DNS connections in your firewall. Lots of “smart” devices are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DHCP says. Pihole won’t stop those, so you have to block it at the firewall.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or redirect them to the PiHole.

        And don’t forget to block/redirect secure DNS on port 853.

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    • scott@lem.free.as ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pi-hole FTW.

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    • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a private DNS service that allows filtering like nextdns

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They put one too many ads on the home screen… then they made them larger…

    fuck em. they get nothing now.

    blocked their ad servers at the DNS level.

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  • quo@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • frokie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guarantee you someone paid Roku to do this

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      • quo@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have an old Roku Express or something similar and love it. It has an RF remote and a very responsive UI. But it is slowly becoming crappier with the infrequent updates.

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