So stupid! Everyone knows if you want people to see your company's logo, you gotta put it on the back of the cereal box, at the bottom of the cereal bowl or on the front and back of the poon! The spoon is literally observed by every single human on every bite....here come the rice crispiest!...jeep! I gotta get me a jeep! Look! It's on my spoon!
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What's with the clickbait title?
This is not news, it has been happening since Smart TVs started being a thing.
One of the most common TV OSs is AndroidTV / GoogleTV. Google is the biggest ad company in the world.
"A convicted felon and sex offender wants to control your next country"
What’s a TV? Is that like a monitor?
Good thing I don't care about owning a tv I don't already know how to jailbreak.
I got a old dumb Toshiba tv lol.
I want a TV with NO OS.
You'll see these marketed as monitors sometimes, from what I've seen. Mostly it's for businesses but if you want a dumb screen to connect things to, it might be called a "monitor" even if it has the form factor of a TV.
Look into Sceptre. 4K with no OS, no ads, doesn't ask for WiFi - just a TV.
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My current TV is clawing my firewall like squirrel with rabies. I'm sure the next one will too.
An ad giant already owns and controls my current TV’s OS
I don’t want an OS on my next TV…
FYI for those using DNS-based adblocking: I discovered that my AndroidTV box asks 8.8.8.8 when my local DNS server blocks a request.
EtherNet over HDMI
Then block 8.8.8.8 and use 1.1.1.1 or Quad9
Block all port 53 traffic from your network outside of your DNS server/pihole itself.
Block all known DoH servers.
If you want to get REALLY fancy you can write a NAT rule that will force any outgoing request on port 53 to route to your dns/pihole.
I do all of this. It's actually funny to see the requests that were hardcoded to go somewhere. Giant fuck you to those companies.
Do DoH requests go though 443?
Yes. But there are lists of well known IPs that are serving DoH. So you can just block those. Obviously blocking 443 is not a good idea.
Damn, never digged into that I thought blocking the DNS port would be enough, thanks for the information.
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Ehm, it is already like that. Most of smart TVs use Android which is under Google control, a big (if not the biggest) ad company.
I have an old 60 inch 1080p TV from the early days of smart tvs. It has a built in app for plex and youtube, a remote that works as a pointer, it's insanely slow but it has zero ads and I'm never ever getting a newer model.
Same here, one of our "smart" TVs needs Ethernet for networking, the other needs a Wi-Fi dongle. Rest aren't even smart. All 1080p.
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Googles been a TV OS for a while now.
Don’t ever connect them to the internet. Period.
If it’s required, buy a different tv. It’s not difficult to look that up beforehand.
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