Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen
Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen
…and it’s not just entertainment ads either
Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.
- Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
- The ads will be interactive and 'shoppable' and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
- Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
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After reading so much about this, I'm definitely going to start reading up on running a Pihole at home
I'd like to ask for suggestions on FAQs or guides that'd help me get started.
TIA!
Your don't need to run your own pihole anymore, unless your goal is to not share your dns history of course
Controld.com and many others has free dns which blocks ads
That (and PiHole) will only work as long as Roku doesn't start using DoH.
Using DoH is fine (good), hardcoding a specific server less so.
Well, you know they're gonna use it to circumvent ad blocking. If they want to play nice they can simply keep doing what they're doing now and use whatever DNS server they're told by DHCP.
Not using DoH is simply a leak of data, every client should use it. If they use it maliciously is a different topic but yeah I wouldn’t say its unlikely.
Do you mean leaking on the LAN or on the Internet? Because the former is a whole different kettle of fish.
Normally, LAN clienta should work with the router and let it organize these things. It's best for example to just let the router advertise itself as DNS and proxy the requests via DoH/DoT, you get a central place where you set the resolver, you can filter ads, you can do caching etc. The router can also intercept (clear) DNS traffic and secure/cache it as needed.
By default devices should expect their requests to go over the internet where DoH is very important. Over LAN much less so ofc.
The Department of Holes!?? Gosh... I knew PiHole's time was limited but it's too soon 😥
I'm going to take a look. Thanks!
Is there a free DNS from Controld.com I can just put in my network settings?
I only saw the paid option. - thx
Yeah just click free dns from the menu
Adguard DNS does that for free : https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
Yep I'm using adguard but heard they have new owners of unknown security accountability