Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen

negativenull@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And there it is, folks.

  I added the Roku servers to my blocklist months ago, (maybe even years ago, at this point?) My three smart TVs are the most blocked devices on my network, by far. It’s not even close.

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  For reference, my phone (my most used device) is number four on that list. My three smart TVs (two Rokus and a Samsung) are numbers 1, 2, and 3. I haven’t even watched TV today. Smart TVs are hilariously, mind-bogglingly invasive, and you should block them ASAP.

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  • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why did you black out your private IP addresses?

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Old habits. Just as a general rule, I black out most IPs; I used to deal with a lot of horribly insecure devices at work, with default passwords that couldn’t be changed and no port security.

      So anyone on the network could fuck things up if they were on the wrong wifi and tried to reconfigure something they shouldn’t be touching. It was only an issue a few times, since the vast majority of people using said network were other techs who knew what they were doing. But there were a few times that someone screenshotted something, it got passed around, and someone who didn’t know what they were doing for curious and went digging when they saw the IPs.

      It was never anything catastrophic since the network wasn’t even connected to the internet, and we had backups of any important settings. But it was just a practice that we all eventually picked up, to prevent random employees from sniffing around. Because it always sucked to come into work the next morning, and discover that a particular piece of gear wasn’t working properly because someone decided to tick a stray checkbox or change a polling rate.

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      • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I, for one, appreciate that someone called @PM_Your_Nudes_Please understands the value of good OPSEC.

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    • ji17br@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He doesn’t wanna get hAcKeD duhhhhh

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      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are called private for a reason!

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  • WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What does it look like on your tv after blocking the ads

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not the guy you replied to, but my LG webos TV worked just fine after I added a whole bunch of domains to my pihole blacklist. Got rid of A LOT of crap from the “homepage”. Made it a hell of a lot cleaner and overall more usable.

      I use past tense because last week I finally created a kodi box and took the TV offline entirely. Now it’s even better.

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you add the expression by the user you are replying to?

    Does it just block the Roku / Samsung spam, while leaving the platform otherwise in tact?

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