[neospice]

It seems obvious that this should be developed, but to take it a step further it would be great if consumers could purchase something that gave them access to these plugins without needing to know how to setup OpenWRT. This will be challenging because most ISPs provide the router and firmware for the majority of their customers.

[wtallis]

ISPs will have to start requiring the OEMs to offer some form of ongoing software maintenance, rather than just the rare bug fix on a distribution that otherwise dates to when the SoC inside first taped out. I can't imagine the OEMs or the SoC vendors being willing to do that kind of maintenance in-house, but the large ISPs certainly have enough leverage to require upstream support in OpenWRT.

[ethbro]

Ha.

In a choice between mandating people rent their routers, or pushing vendors to offer patches, I wouldn't bet on ISPs picking the latter.

[ObsoleteNerd]

Where the ISP forces use of their modem (like mine does), you can still set it up as a gateway and make it a pure modem, using a second router for your local network.

It's what I've done for years and it works fine. I have a Pi-hole off my ISP modem, and the Pi-hole does DHCP, DNS, VPN, and more for our network at the same time as doing it's normal filtering job.

I'd love a better device where my Pi-hole is though, which I can configure easier, set up for my friends and family then they can manage it themselves, etc. There's definitely a market for this at least from me!

[CommanderData]

I would personally love to see the same, and a way of unifying experiences across all open firmwares such as ddwrt.

Another is to limit a device to communicate to a specific country. Easy enough however a possible performance issue.