Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
Kalysta@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This is gross. I cut my cable because of ads. Have about 3 types of adblockers on my computer to stop them. This hyper marketing is why so many have turned away from traditional entertainment to begin with.
I am more than the ability to spend money and it’s goddamn time everyone say this and boycott companies that do shady garbage like this
danciestlobster@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I have ubo, what are your other kinds of ad blocking? I always want to block as many ads as possible
JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I suspect they might be talking about a DNS based ad blocking solution. Like Pi-Hole or AdGaurd DNS.
They work by blocking DNS requests made by ads so the content can never be accessed. They’re theoretically more powerful than browser extensions as they have the opportunity to block ads anywhere.
Kalysta@lemm.ee 7 months ago
While we have one (Pi-hole) I can’t use it right now because some of my roommate’s work software won’t run with it and we haven’t had time to troubleshoot. So I have a bunch of extensions in my browser on my pc
JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You could configure the DNS only on devices that don’t have issues with it rather than the network as a whole?
Kalysta@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Adblock plus, flashblock, ublock, and one that stops videos from autoplaying but i can’t remember it’s name right now.
My roommate has raspberry pi but it messes with his’s wife’s work software so we never have it active. Which is a shame because i’d rather use that.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The Pihole has groups that you can separate devices with and remove blocks for those devices.
So you can have your stuff fully blocked and then her device can have the problematic blocks removed.