[traveler01]

This is so stupid. When I bought my TV it didn't behave like this, but now for some stupid reason I need to get ads on it?

I mean, normal TV it's 90% ads 10% content, do we need to watch even more ads?

Anyone has any idea on how adding a filter like AdBlocker to your router? Never thought about this but it's getting useful af.

[garblegarble]

I do this and it's been somewhat useful - you need to disable blackhole rules periodically to get app updates though (and the TV will send a storm of DNS queries your way if you dare to block queries)

Frustratingly, recently the latest Plex app stopped working with the block rules I had in place, so I've had to allow through a lot more of the TV's traffic to samsung domains than I'd like.

My primary annoyance is Samsung's monitoring of what I do on my TV, and secondarily their IPTV service, which it seems to default to on startup (I only use apps and PC/game console sources, the TV isn't plugged into or tuned for any channels).

Realistically I need to switch to a Shield TV and hope that nVidia's privacy policies are better... and never buy a samsung tv ever again.

[my123]

The Shield TV runs Android TV, so you are just moving your point of trust to Google instead...

[UncleSlacky]

Pi-Hole would probably do the trick: https://pi-hole.net/

[kxrm]

Just an fyi, it's good to setup firewall redirection from suspicious devices as well.

For my Roku I have setup a redirection for all DNS port queries to my pihole as some app developers are getting wise to this and using their own DNS.

It won't be long until they encrypt this traffic and lock us out completely though.

[rvwaveren]

Yes, that works! I have a Samsung Frame + PiHole. Incredible amount of network requests are blocked now.

[mercora]

i tried blocking DNS or whitelisting and you probably see that large amount of blocked requests because it tries like every second if you refuse the response.

[iso1631]

The future is https://imgur.com/H9dd3B1

[vmnjhhh]

https://pi-hole.net/ ?