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

• 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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      • mogranja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We are on the “let’s see how back corporate greed can get” simulation server.

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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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