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Another option if you have good control over your router is to put the TV and other smart devices on a special subnet or vlan and only occasionally give it inte
by qbasic_forever 4y ago
Another option if you have good control over your router is to put the TV and other smart devices on a special subnet or vlan and only occasionally give it internet access for updates, etc. Maybe there's a good DNS-based ad blocker you could run on its vlan and nuke all of its ad and spy traffic too.
This actually seems like a good market opportunity for yet another home device, a router with aggressive spyware and ad mitigation that's made to explicitly connect all your smart gadgets and untrusted devices that phone home.
- monkpit 4y agoThese products are designed not to rely upon DNS to serve the ad content, though.
- b112 4y agoIf true, this is an excellent chance for white hat flooding. Knock, and keep that ip offline. With no way to change locationation(DNS), their little ad sceme won't work. Even better if it makes companies shy about using such methods.
- jsjohnst 4y ago> white hat flooding Very curious definition of “white hat” you have
- b112 4y agoA white hat works for the public good, yes?
- jsjohnst 4y agoSure, but is vigilantism for the public good?
- ForHackernews 4y ago
- gruez 4y agoClose, but no. >A white hat (or a white hat hacker) is an ethical security hacker.[1] Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration testing.[2][3] Under the owner's consent, white hat hackers aim to identify any vulnerabilities the current system has. [...] There is a third kind of hacker known as a grey hat who hacks with good intentions but at times without permission.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
- fragmede 4y agotraditionally, white hat means working with companies to help identify weaknesses in their systems, and getting inside with their consent.
- User23 4y agoThat sounds like helping to secure my home network from unwanted spyware and tracking to me.
- beanders 4y agoThis would be what I term “green hat”, gray with a flavor of robbing the rich to feed the poor.
- happyopossum 4y agoWell, no - GP an isn’t exactly correct. They use DNS, they just won’t use your configured DNS. You can play NAT tricks to force all UDP dns queries to your pihole or other DNS based blocker, but they can just as easily use DOH.
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- tssva 4y agoI block the ads on my Roku TV through DNS filtering.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoSame
- ruraltech 4y agoI use a Pi-hole for the network, but this doesn't block YouTube ads (sadly). Since I refuse to see ads of any stripe ever, I discovered that my Amazon Firestick can be put in developer mode and then install SmartTubeNext. Looks very similar to YouTube, but blocks all ads, sponsor content, and other nonsense. Pure videos. I of course also use UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, and Referer Block on the laptop in addition to the Pi-hole. I do the same at work, as they allowed me to use a Pi-hole since I'm IT and on my own portion of the network on a private VLAN. Since some people use laptops in lieu of TVs, you can always use FreeTube, which blocks ads by default and can also be proxied in the settings so YouTube cannot see your location. https://freetubeapp.io/ https://freetubeapp.io/ How to block ads on Amazon Firestick https://troypoint.com/youtube-without-ads/ https://troypoint.com/youtube-without-ads/ SmartTubeNext https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/ https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/
- tssva 4y agoI just pay for YouTube Premium and don't see YouTube ads on any platform while still providing some income for the content creators I watch.