I just never gave my TV access to the Internet and use my home theater PC to watch stuff. Never seen a need for more.
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dan@upvote.au 15 hours ago
Don’t let your TV connect to the internet. I have mine on my wifi so I can control them using Home Assistant, but they’re on an isolated VLAN with no internet access.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
Wait what? Is there a blog or article on how to do this?
Because I can’t picture how this works in my head for my setup. It needs internet to go to Hulu/Netflix/etc.
dan@upvote.au 13 hours ago
Oh sorry, I completely forgot to mention that. I’m using an Nvidia Shield for all my streaming.
Another approach is to connect the TV to the internet but block all LG/Samsung/whatever stuff, for example by using a firewall on your router.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Oh that’s neat with Nvidia shield!
I currently do the pi-hole and block calls route.
dan@upvote.au 6 hours ago
Some newer TVs are starting to have hard-coded DNS servers, which means they’ll bypass most PiHole configurations.
You could try configure your router to redirect all DNS traffic (UDP port 53) to your PiHole server, but that won’t work of they’re using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) which is becoming more and more common.
WarMarshalEmu@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
The TV itself wouldn’t be able to reach Hulu/Netflix/etc. they’re likely using another device for that. Like a media computer or something else.
Sl00k@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Like a apple TV / Roku which then… Reports everything you’re watching and or viewing. We truly live in the day and age where nothing you do digitally is private, and it’s almost turned into privacy via aggregation imo now since the PBs of raw data isn’t really worth it for major corporations.
Obvs if you’re the .0001% I’m sure the NSA can tap into it and you’re still gonna be fucked that way, but that can be said for pretty much any digital device.