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The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by GooseFinger@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.

Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven't already.

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[–] GooseFinger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Oh, and if anyone knows why pfBlockerNG might fail to update some DNSBL AND IPv4 feeds during cron events, I'd be forever grateful. I'm getting tired of my router crashing every hour.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

meta-ad-ception

Ads within an ad, about about ads.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I mean... Historically I find the superbowl ads (and the halftime show) more entertaining than the actual game, but damn that is shitty.

[–] mat@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago

For now I have an androidTV but I guess that whent I have time, it will be HDMI only (androidTV is quite buggy on it) and after that, I will look for a dumbTV

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-firetv-noroot-launcher-manager-change-launcher-without-root.4176349/

There's an Android TV version in there as well (ik the article says Fire TV)

I use this and ATVLauncher Pro

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Where can I pirate the ads instead of paying for your TV service?

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Congratulations! So, how does the TV work with the adblocker set up?

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[–] wazoobi@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I'm trying to understand why this is marked as NSFW... I must be missing something?

The intrusion of ads is annoying AF, I agree. I'll have to look into that link for DNS ad-blocking, thanks!

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