Apologies if this should be posted somewhere else.

I have had this TV for about 7 years and have never had this pop up before. About a month ago, I bought a router that uses OpenWRT. With that, I setup up Adguard and specifically one of the lists that is supposed to block devices from phoning home.

Am I nuts thinking that this pop up is due to the TV not being able to offload what has been recorded? How would I check that?

  • toor@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Owning (owning) your router/firewall makes this harder for them to bypass. Block all DNS outbound, allow only from Pihole (or other private DNS server), redirect all DNS to Pihole. The machines you don’t/can’t own will think they’re reaching out to external DNS but the replies come from Pihole. I haven’t dug too far into whether this works if they force DNS over HTTPS. Is that not 853/tls?! My convoluted and possibly placebo setup.

    I suppose there are plenty of ways around this. My config is port based, so if they change ports or run a tunnel through something my Pihole doesn’t block… Sigh. Yeah, just don’t connect these crap boxes up to the network in the first place.