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Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen (www.techradar.com)

submitted 10 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
The ads will be interactive and 'shoppable' and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.

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[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

After reading so much about this, I'm definitely going to start reading up on running a Pihole at home

I'd like to ask for suggestions on FAQs or guides that'd help me get started.

TIA!

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your don't need to run your own pihole anymore, unless your goal is to not share your dns history of course

Controld.com and many others has free dns which blocks ads

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago

That (and PiHole) will only work as long as Roku doesn't start using DoH.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 10 months ago

The Department of Holes!?? Gosh... I knew PiHole's time was limited but it's too soon 😥

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Using DoH is fine (good), hardcoding a specific server less so.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

Well, you know they're gonna use it to circumvent ad blocking. If they want to play nice they can simply keep doing what they're doing now and use whatever DNS server they're told by DHCP.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not using DoH is simply a leak of data, every client should use it. If they use it maliciously is a different topic but yeah I wouldn’t say its unlikely.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

Do you mean leaking on the LAN or on the Internet? Because the former is a whole different kettle of fish.

Normally, LAN clienta should work with the router and let it organize these things. It's best for example to just let the router advertise itself as DNS and proxy the requests via DoH/DoT, you get a central place where you set the resolver, you can filter ads, you can do caching etc. The router can also intercept (clear) DNS traffic and secure/cache it as needed.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

By default devices should expect their requests to go over the internet where DoH is very important. Over LAN much less so ofc.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Is there a free DNS from Controld.com I can just put in my network settings?

I only saw the paid option. - thx

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah just click free dns from the menu

[-] sonovebitch@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Adguard DNS does that for free : https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yep I'm using adguard but heard they have new owners of unknown security accountability

[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm going to take a look. Thanks!

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