[propogandist]

Just get pihole and put it on your network. Roku and Amazon Fire Stick are constantly calling home. Even every interaction with the remote is logged and sent back.

You can see it happening and block it. Roku also shuts down and stops you from using many apps if it can't call home for a long time.

[ilikepi]

Er...so the solution is to block the traffic, but then eventually that makes the device stop working unless you allow the traffic again?