we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

  • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Connected a Samsung smart TV to my network when we first got it. The thing damn-near crashed my pi-hole asking for so many ad/tracking domains. Factory reset it later that same day. I think my % of requests blocked went from 15% to 68% in just the 3 hours or so the Smart TV was connected.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
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      7 months ago

      They started to wisen up and hard-coded dns requests to 8.8.8.8 to bypass dns ad blockers now. Heck, some apps like Netflix already do it for years now. If your router can transparently redirect all dns requests to your pi-hole, you should use that feature.

      • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        or use the blocking feature of your firewall. Here’s Roku being persistent and ignoring my pihole. Firewalla for the win.