Yeah, DNS blocking is quite effective for not just ads, but also telemetry on Roku.
Personally, I use nextdns until I can can a good pihole setup going.
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Poggervania@kbin.social 5 months ago
For those with Roku TVs or any of their products, I found that a PiHole blocks the ads on the home screen so far. Hoping I could pick up an ONN box in the future so I can just not deal with this shit lol.
SharpieThunderflare@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
You can comfortably run pihole, unbound, and a VPN like wireguard on a pi zero or zero 2. You can find entire zero 2 kits for under $35 if you’re patient
SharpieThunderflare@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Very true. Mostly just haven’t had the time. Also want to set up a little home server to play around with Proxmox and move Jellyfin off my main PC.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I use roku…I might have to try a pihole…or switch to something else. Damn shame just about everything gets ruined by greed.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A pihole is a whole “home” adware/malware/spyware blocker. It runs on a raspberry Pi but can also run on a physical/virtual install of several different Linux distributions. Not only can it block ads on your computer but can also block ads on technology that you can’t (easily) block ads on (“Smart” TV / stock cellphone / IoT devices / etc). In addition, with some easy to instal additional (free) software you can block ads even when not at “home”!
gramathy@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Pihole also has a docker distribution, so it’ll also run easily on “appliance” NAS solutions with minimal effort
triptrapper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thank you for the explanation. I felt very out of the loop on this whole thread. I’ll look into pihole.