Blocked that hard-coded google dns garbage.

  • AdventuringAardvark@lemmy.oneOP
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    1 year ago

    No, you can block ads with a pihole. This is because Roku hard codes its dns server as 8.8.8.8. Pihole doesn’t handle IP addresses, only DNS.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting. I set an adblocking dns via DHCP and, as far as I know, the Roku respects it. Ads are blocked and I can see it failing to delivery telemetry in my dns logs (most persistent thing on the network).

      I set a rule to catch outside dns to see if anything, the roku included, has been misbehaving.

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        1 year ago

        I doubt it but could this help my tv randomly crashing

        It’s genuinely so annoying and is such a 2023 problem

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          1 year ago

          Tv crashing? Add an external device and don’t use TVs for their smart features as they tend to be pretty bad.