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I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**(lemmy.world)

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we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

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linkinkampf19@lemmy.world
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The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.

+1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.

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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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That’s because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren’t normally making tens of thousands of requests.

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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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It can scream into the void for as long as it wants.

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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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I fucking hate my Roku Tv. One of my roku TV became unusable after software update. Can’t be rolled back. I’m just stuck with a perfectly fine screen and shit software. And yes even connecting another device via HDMI is an issue because the TV restarts randomly for “updates” while watching external sources.

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Albbi@lemmy.ca
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Hrm, that’s a pretty good argument for buying a tv and leaving the built in smart features without internet access. Sorry about your issues.

I’d there no way to factory reset it?

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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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I can factory reset but not downgrade the firmware. The newer firmware is too demanding for the crappy chip in the TV.

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AtariDump@lemmy.world
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Shoutout to the PiHole team. Love you guys and the work you do.

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0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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Which smart TV blocklist are you using? Should probably add that into my pihole.

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linkinkampf19@lemmy.world
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Posted under Phar’s comment, but here’s the direct link

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt

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cmbabul@lemmy.world
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I really need to get around to that on my pfsense

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phar@lemmy.world
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What block list is that?

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linkinkampf19@lemmy.world
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Pretty sure it’s the smart TV blocklist from Wally3k / Firebog. I’ll confirm and update later if I find out otherwise.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt

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