Flying Squid to [email protected]English • 1 year agoAfter luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with adsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1558arrow-down16
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minus-squareBobby TurkalinolinkEnglish2•1 year agoHad a firestick for 4 years, switched to Roku a couple weeks ago and I wish I did years ago I can boot up the Roku, open Plex, and start a video stream without ever seeing an ad
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI have a TCL Roku TV, and it has ads. I always thought that would be the same on any Roku device, but I guess not?
minus-squareBobby TurkalinolinkEnglish1•1 year agoI do have ad blocking at the DNS level setup on my router But, the Firestick showed ads regardless of that, so…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoLots of ‘smart’ devices have hard coded DNS IPs. Build an OPNsense box Forward all port 53 requests to your pihole ? Profit
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoDoing something similar on the Chromecast, turn on, open stremio and play away
Had a firestick for 4 years, switched to Roku a couple weeks ago and I wish I did years ago
I can boot up the Roku, open Plex, and start a video stream without ever seeing an ad
I have a TCL Roku TV, and it has ads. I always thought that would be the same on any Roku device, but I guess not?
I do have ad blocking at the DNS level setup on my router
But, the Firestick showed ads regardless of that, so…
Lots of ‘smart’ devices have hard coded DNS IPs. Build an OPNsense box Forward all port 53 requests to your pihole ? Profit
This is the way.
Doing something similar on the Chromecast, turn on, open stremio and play away