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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours 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.

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[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sorry, I'm confused. You should easily be able to block these home screen ads ads with pihole or router dns blocking. I know because I do it with my smart tvs. Are you saying that that isn't working?

[-] GooseFinger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I figure the ads are just cached from earlier. I took this picture a few hours after I finished setting up my pfBlockerNG feeds and changing my DNS to AdGuard's public one.

If nothing else, this ad certainly reaffirmed my decision to update our network.

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