PiHoleBlocklist

Pi-Hole sped up my Samsung home and menu screens tremendously. I use something like this list [0]. The growing size of the list itself is a testament to the enshittification of Smart TVs. I wonder if the SmartTV blocklist change history and size of commits could tell a historical story of how things have evolved? I'm aware that DoH makes this approach less and less viable ... but for my existing TVs it still seems to work fine as long as I'm careful not to blindly update. [0] https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar...

There's a specific list for it: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/ It's listed on https://firebog.net/

For what it's worth that domain in your repo is also listed in the 1Hosts block-list [1] but only in the Xtra category, not sure why. It seems that is a known malware site. Oddly enough it is not listed in the PiHoleBlocklist [2] [1] - https://github.com/badmojr/1Hosts [listed but only in Xtra] [2] - https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist.git [not listed]

Not mentioned: Samba(dot)TV... who are probably THE single most aggressive surveillance company operating in the Smart TV space. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/business/media/tv-viewer-... And the Pi-Hole list you want is here: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist

The source of that webpage _is_ in a Git repo: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist HTH.

It doesn't seem like they stopped: $ dig @8.8.8.8 +short usage-us-fy20{18,19,20,21,22}.myhomescreen.tv 199.239.141.74 213.198.25.172 213.198.25.174 213.198.25.177 213.198.25.177 Probably a good opportunity for an update to the blocklist. Edit: Opened a PR: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/pull/126

I use this [1] and never seen an ad on my LG TV. Its only for Smart TVs. It blocks all the major TV ad networks too but can't tell how successful it is on other TVs since I only have LG. [1] https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist

I have a Sony too, and it’s a little too chatty for my liking. I blocked port 53 unless it came from my own dns and added the below to my blocklist on a pihole. It’s deeply imperfect but has blocked a lot of their crap. I had to whitelist one Netflix domain. https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar... Edit: I just checked. The Sony TV made 8249 requests in the last 24 hours. I have more locking down to do.

As a bad alternative. By the smart TVs, add a Pihole to the network. Block port 53 if it isn’t from the Pihole and add an as list like the one below. It seems to work well. https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar...

https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar... https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/d... https://github.com/Truvis/CodeDrop/blob/master/PiHoleDNS_scr... https://github.com/kbinani/adblock-youtube-ads/blob/master/b... https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/regex.lis... https://gitlab.com/ookangzheng/dbl-oisd-nl/raw/master/dbl.tx... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CHEF-KOCH/Audio-fingerprin... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/mas... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LanikSJ/ubo-filters/master... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.github

The Pi-Hole lists to contribute to and subscribe to: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist