• Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Only janky solution I know of is to use a Raspberry Pi (or other computer) to run Kodi or Android TV. You can then point your TV’s DNS to a PiHole or other DNS filter to stop tracking/ads.

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t call this a janky solution at all. The jank is the “smart” TV itself. I use an Nvidia shield to get the most out of my 4k OLED TV, but otherwise do pretty much the same thing. I put my TV on a VLAN that doesn’t have Internet access, too.

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          Samsung TVs are known to connect automatically if they detect an open network, and some ISPs have an open network on all their routers, so you can’t even guarantee that!