Use a pi hole to filter that shit by DNS
Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can you just not connect your Smart TV to the internet at all to bypass this? I never connect my Smart TVs to the internet, just my Apple TV since it’s my streamer platform. Seems like this would hamstring their ability to push ads.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
noxy@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Unless tbey start doing DNS over HTTPS or TL, in which case cut that thing off from any network connections whatsoever
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You ever see what an LG does to a Pihole block log? They try to phone home every minute.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It’s entirely possible Roku would fill the ad space with a notice you should connect your TV to the internet.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Probably, but also HDMI can carry ethernet as well.
Anarch157a@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If too many people do this, you bet “smart” TV peddlers will start bundling cellular modems on their devices, so they can connect directly to their servers without relying on your WiFi, just like car companies do. Blocking this would require enclosing the TV in a Faraday cage.
oatscoop@midwest.social 5 months ago
Blocking it would require a screwdriver and a razor blade to cut some traces on the cellular modem.
aniki@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s a shame sim cards aren’t a thing anymore because how fun would it be to harvest them from some janky shit product like that and then make a bonded backup network with the data plans on the sims until the company figures it out.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You would need to cut the antenna and then put a dummy load on it, disabling the modem would almost certainly give you errors that will probably make the TV unusable or break something you actually need for TV functions.