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Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

Enshittification in progress. Sadly their OLED TVs are amazing, if not for the intrusive ads. It is really crap what all those companies are doing shoving ads our throats.

I am trying to block everything using ad blockers, DNS filtering, Pi hole, etc.

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expr@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I just… don’t connect the TV to the internet. Never had an issue with anything like that.

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- swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is the best way, really. Generally, you have much more control over what you plug into it.
  
  A display shouldn’t have anything even approaching what can be called an ‘OS’ on it. Yet here we are.
  
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swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sometimes even that’s not enough. I’ve had some questionable kit before that would just ignore the DNS settings fed to it if it thought they were no good, and fall back to something else preconfigured.

pfSense is a wonderful tool for situations like that. Anything intended for local use only here just doesn’t get outside at all. Handy for stuff like a fire stick that only needs to be calling up a local media library.

It can also mangle any DNS requests going out to a different server and redirect them to itself instead. You could do this without it with iptables/nftables on a generic Linux box, but pfSense makes it much friendlier.

There are other packages that can do the same, but physically all you need is one piece of hardware as a bouncer that manages connections between inside/outside.

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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  what can it do if the TV uses DoH, DoT, or something else similar? I expect that it can do nothing. unless the TV is on a separate lan with very strictly only access to internal services
  
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  - Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Don’t connect it at all and just use an Android TV box or dongle.
    
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    WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    well that’s what I’m saying to the parent commenter
    
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  - swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    At that point I would expect control of it, or at least for it to respect the configuration it is given. If neither are true, then it just doesn’t go online at all. If that’s part of the main function, then I find an alternative or live without it.
    
    Nothing on the inside should be sending anything to the outside that can’t be inspected before it leaves, with the exception of stuff that is directly driven by a human (guests browsing, etc).
    
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DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I got an LG OLED a few weeks ago. Hands down the best TV screen I’ve ever owned.

Fuck knows what the stock OS does because I’ve only watched Apple TV through it.

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