Depends on your blocklist. It would freak out every so often on me when I was preventing it from bypassing my DNS with its hard coded ones until I added in a forced redirect instead.
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MagicShel@programming.dev 4 weeks agoThis is the way to go. I tried pihole using Samsung smart features, but if you block so the telemetry eventually your apps stop working and you can’t get them working again without doing a factory reset with blocking down. It’s prohibitively a pain in the ass, taking hours every time YouTube stops working.
Never had any issues with Roku on pihole.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I believe one reason maybe that the software is so garbage it can’t handle not being able to submit all its logging information when otherwise the system thinks it’s online.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is the case with Rokus as well. If you also redirect or block the hard coded DNS (Google) from bypassing your local DNS it starts to get extremely sluggish over time… presumably from background processes repeatedly resending requests out.
MagicShel@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
That makes perfect sense and explains why you can’t fix it just by bypassing blocking temporarily and reinstalling the app.