Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sinkholes can be negated by manufacturers using static, hardcoded dns addresses. Be careful and don’t check traffic regularly.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And those can be blocked and even redirected at the router level. Though not as simple as spinning up a pihole.

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    • OwlHamster@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Actually simpler, if you have an Asus router. Just remember to disable it’s telemetry stuff…

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      • heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        … Sending telemetry to Asus about the TV sending telemetry to LG? Wtf is this timeline?

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Blocking telemetry would not include blocking 8.8.8.8 though.

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  • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And they do. My Philips TV didn’t even ask for DNS until hardcoded IPs for Netflix et al. timed out. And when it did, it asked Google, not my router.

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    • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is why you need to do DNS hijacking to handle hardcoded DNS requests. Check masquerade in OpenWrt

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Very easy to circumvent

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