The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs

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#21

The suggestion I have made on other topics is to create a group for your streaming devices and/or servers and remove all of the lists from that group. Essentially you are isolating the streamers and servers from blocking. There's really no need to have blocking for that class of device, I've seen people create lists that claim to block interstitial advertising but I've never found any list that didn't break the streaming completely.

You might want to let Apple know about that then, they specifically state NXDOMAIN.

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#22

Could you provide source?

#23

Already did, and a screencap of what you see at that link:

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#24

The fastest and most reliable way to alert users is to return either a "no error no answer" response or an NXDOMAIN response from your network’s DNS resolver, preventing DNS resolution for the following hostnames used by Private Relay traffic.

If you want to block everything in a particular domain then NXDOMAIN is appropriate. However we were just talking about blocking only AAAA/HTTPS records. Answering with NXDOMAIN will prevent access to other records, including A records. That's why NODATA needs to be used.

#25

Let Apple know their documentation and engineering staff are incorrect then.

#26

I would love to do that but they are correct. Where is the problem?

#27

I started using this and it's running on macOS the same mini as Channels. Pretty cool. I like the latest update that allows some adhoc functionality.

Yep VLANs ofcourse is another.

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#28

:100: agree. I’ve never experienced the issue described either. It’s an over the top exaggeration at best.

#29

Pretty sure there's an issue with the "Limit IP Address Tracking" toggle on the settings for the home WiFi network. Leaving it off seems to work best with PiHole and AdGuard Home. The issue though, has been that the "Limit IP Address Tracking" keeps toggling itself back on. That would be an iOS bug though, not PiHole's or AGH's fault.

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#30

Havent seen this with IOS16 recent updates,
However, this is a good reminder to keep checking this setting anyway just in case after every ios, ipados update.

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#31

I also agree. I just stood up a pi-hole on an Orange-pi a month ago and have been amazed at how trouble free it's been. I occasionally need to disable it for 15 secs while I open an email or click on a google link that is calling an ad tracker but no biggie. Also the ability to Tailscale with a subnet router to the PI-hole is so cool. When I run Tailscale on my phone and I'm away, it resolves my dns from a cell connection to my Orange-pi at home and I get total ad blocking. If I happen to need to disable the pi-hole, I just turn off the Tailscale VPN on my phone.

Oh and since installing pi-hole, I notice that my Samsung TV has been phoning home every night with bursts of activity. That is now getting blocked.

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#32

Indeed. I'm always on the latest iOS and now, I'm noticing, it's the "Private WiFi Address" setting that keeps toggling itself on.

#33

Interesting,

I just noticed that on tvOS the latest update toggled private relay off, and did indeed toggle private Wi Address to on.

Thanks for the reminder…

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#34

Does the allow youtube to stream without commercials

#35

No, because the ads are part of the stream, not inserted from other servers. I pay for YouTube Premium.

#36

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