So most alternative router firmware comes with a feature that can be configured to re-route any hard coded DNS through the pihole. I.e., my Smart TV will switch to Google DNS if it can’t connect through your set DNS. The feature I mentioned will force this to always go through your configured DNS. This is completely solves that issue. I’ve thoroughly tested this and it 100% works. Also routers have a feature that can block a device from accessing the WAN at all, and only allow them to access the LAN. This is just a simple toggle in my router and extremely easy to use. I block certain devices that I don’t want to have intentet at all but that I want to access over the network (i.e. plex)

Just to be clear, my goal with my setup is limiting tracking, telemetry, and ads.

I don’t understand your response. You’re essentially doing the exact same thing I am. Preventing iot devices from accessing wan. The end result in the same, except you’re blocking it from accessing other devices on lan as well. But access to wan is blocked which is the most important. If a device has a security vulnerability then by blocking wan access, you’re blocking an attacker from getting in, unless someone malicious is already on your local network, which in that case you’re fucked anyway. Apologies if i misunderstood your point.

A better solution is to use a pihole to block all domains that the TV pings, and only let through ones that allow you to use streaming apps (i.e. netflix API domain.)

Another good solution is to block WAN access for specific devices and only allow them to communicate over LAN. This would be done on your Router. This method would allow local streaming using Jellyfin but wouldn’t allow streaming apps like Netflix since that requires communication with the outside Internet.

2 reasons:

1. Mods don’t seem to give a shit

2. Lemmy has the exact same issues as Reddit, minus the corporate bullshit. Users do the same stupid shit. People don’t magically become not fucking stupid and horrible because they move from Reddit to the Fediverse.

Have you ever looked at OLED TV prices? This is absolutely a normal price.

Sorry, I’m confused. You should easily be able to block these home screen ads ads with pihole or router dns blocking. I know because I do it with my smart tvs. Are you saying that that isn’t working?

I use it as a glorified Google search since Google search is absolute dogshit these days. But that’s about it. ChatGPT is one of the most over hyped bullshit I’ve ever seen in my life.

I have bad news for you. Literally every TV has ads now. Every. Single. One. That’s why I keep harping on Pihole. It blocks them.

I wouldn’t know. I use pihole to block all ads on my TV OS. I’m curious though, which service/app is giving you ads on pause? Do you mean like on a Roku TV where the screensaver is ads? Many TVs let you disable that (i.e. LG WebOS.) otherwise pihole is your friend :-)

AI is the buggest pile of dogshit to come out of tech in the history of the human race

Rooting (assume you meant this by jailbreak8ng) is not required for this process. Only some apps reauire root. Kodi and the youtube adfree apps don’t require root.

But you can just block all the ads on the home screen with pihole. Then you can still use the native TV apps. It’s a win-win.

If you turn off Internet access then your parents can’t stream.

This is untrue. You can use Jellyfin or Kodi natively on LG WebOS on the TV and stream whatever you want locally. You have to grab it from the homebrew channel or sideload it. It’s a little bit of a process though. Nothing crazy. But it works!

Edit: you can also get YouTube without ads off Homebrew.

Lemmy has some sort of slander campaign going against Signal. Can’t tell if it’s just misinformed idiots or a paid shill smear campaign being run here (likely the former, Lemmy is too small for companies to give a shit about.) It’s really annoying. Same with Mozilla and Firefox. Not sure Lemmy likes anything?

Fair point. I agree.

Is this a serious question? There is NO WAY to use Meta products privately. Private Meta is literally an oxymoron.

I’ve used govee stuff before and it absolutely did NOT require an account. Just the app. Are you sure you have that right?

You can’t do anything besides the usual precautions. I get a notice of a data breach in the mail like every 3 weeks from companies who got hacked. It’s fucking ridiculous. My social security number has probably been leaked like 900 times. All of ours has

All you can do is:

• change passwords
• use good passwords
• check your accounts frequently
• freeze your credit
• use 2FA with literally anything and everything
• try to limit the number of one off accounts you have to create (hard to do when every fucking thing requires a fucking account, i.e. PSN account to play fucking Sony SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam)
• cross your fingers

There is definitely an anti firefox agenda on Lemmy. I can’t tell if it’s just people circlejerking FUD news or if it’s paid shills, but something is definitely going on. I’m about to unsub from these communities because it’s just constant bullshit.

Yea…sounds terrible. I don’t even save my browser history normally.