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I got a Samsung "SmartTV", turned it on and the first thing I saw was advertisement and an insane amount of calls to Samsung servers on my Pi-hole. On the TV I

I got a Samsung "SmartTV", turned it on and the first thing I saw was advertisement and an insane amount of calls to Samsung servers on my Pi-hole. On the TV I just paid for. Opened it up, disconnected the WiFi module, connected my Apple TV to it and am pretty happy.

amdelamar 7y ago
Did you disable WiFi in the menu, or physically remove the WiFi card/chip?
- jamesponddotco 7y ago
  Physically removed the Wi-Fi module.
  - beamatronic 7y ago
    I see a niche value-added service business here
  - xxs 7y ago
    this works of course, but blocking in on the router by mac address is way easier.
EpicEng 7y ago
Why did you give it access to Wi-Fi in the first place? I have a Samsung smart TV and I just skipped that step. Performing a HW mod seems unnecessary.
- zik 7y ago
  It might make sense to connect it to get a firmware update. And some bug fixes, hopefully.
  - takeda 7y ago
    If you don't want any of those smart features, chances are you don't have the need to update anything.
- jamesponddotco 7y ago
  Because I was curious to see what it would try to do and I did not have an Ethernet cable in the living room at the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯