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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IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub 7 months agoInteresting. 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.
IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub 7 months ago
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I doubt it but could this help my tv randomly crashing
It’s genuinely so annoying and is such a 2023 problem
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tv crashing? Add an external device and don’t use TVs for their smart features as they tend to be pretty bad.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Some days I miss my old LG Plasma. Sold the house and left it bolted to the wall. 1080P, deep blacks, crisp colors, and zero “smart” features.
It put off enough heat to warm up the living room but that was only a “bug” in the summer months. Simpler times.
chagall@lemmy.world 7 months 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.