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

• linkinkampf19@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It can scream into the void for as long as it wants.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hrm, that’s a pretty good argument for buying a tv and leaving the built in smart features without internet access. Sorry about your issues.

      I’d there no way to factory reset it?

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can factory reset but not downgrade the firmware. The newer firmware is too demanding for the crappy chip in the TV.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • linkinkampf19@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Posted under Phar’s comment, but here’s the direct link

      raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/…/SmartTV.txt

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  • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really need to get around that on my pfsense

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  • phar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What block list is that?

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    • linkinkampf19@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure it’s the smart TV blocklist from Wally3k / Firebog. I’ll confirm and update later if I find out otherwise.

      raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/…/SmartTV.txt

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• frokie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pi-hole FTW.

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• tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or a private DNS service that allows filtering like nextdns

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