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

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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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[-] mat@jlai.lu 3 points 21 hours 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

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