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Since getting pi-hole on my home network, I've been amazed at the amount of phoning home my old (7 years+) smart TVs are trying to do. All of the domains are ab
by djaychela 4y ago
Since getting pi-hole on my home network, I've been amazed at the amount of phoning home my old (7 years+) smart TVs are trying to do. All of the domains are about content matching, which I'm thinking is no longer happening since getting pi-hole as the domains are never bring resolved for them.
- nvr219 4y agoCheck this out: https://imgur.com/VJVmDd3 https://imgur.com/VJVmDd3 This is from 2 days when there was literally nobody using anything in the house because I was out of town.
- norgie 4y agoTo be fair, blocking can cause more requests than "normal" as they don't always use good back offs. My Nvidia Shield used to spam my DNS with 10s of thousands of requests a day like this after I blocked the domain, but they seem to have fixed it at some point.
- bombcar 4y agoI have a server that responds with a blank every access which satisfies some of them, but with HTTPS it’s harder to do.