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• AdventuringAardvark@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, you can block ads with a pihole. This is because Roku hard codes its dns server as 8.8.8.8. Pihole doesn’t handle IP addresses, only DNS.

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  • IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting. I set an adblocking dns via DHCP and, as far as I know, the Roku respects it. Ads are blocked and I can see it failing to delivery telemetry in my dns logs (most persistent thing on the network).

    I set a rule to catch outside dns to see if anything, the roku included, has been misbehaving.

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    • chagall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pihole blocks the basics for Roku. Things like logs ads etc. but there’s a lot more telemetry that they’re collecting. Here’s a hackernews thread about the topic and the associated article it references.

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    • IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, I’m back and can confirm the sneaky DNS resolver. I have two roku devices and they both were making requests to 8.8.8.8.

      Thanks for this post! TIL.

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    • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I doubt it but could this help my tv randomly crashing

      It’s genuinely so annoying and is such a 2023 problem

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      • StopSpazzing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tv crashing? Add an external device and don’t use TVs for their smart features as they tend to be pretty bad.

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• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not familiar with Rokus, but it depends on what your filtering. Mostly it’s to block needless analytics tracking. I use a pair of PiHoles for much the same purpose.

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