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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I blocked my two TVs from phoning home via my pihole. They are the two noisiest devices on my network, by leaps and bounds.

On a day of heavy usage, my phone and desktop may get ~2000 blocked requests combined. That’s high, but not unheard of. It just means I did a lot of browsing, with a lot of blocked ad requests. My TVs average somewhere around 7500 blocked requests per day, on days that I haven’t even turned them on. That’s an attempt to phone home every ~12 seconds. And it is much worse on days that I actually use them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got a 42" 4k computer monitor instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How many times the cost of a comparably-sized Trojan TV did that run you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

1.2x

I also use it as a computer monitor though.

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