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Why did the HN mods arbitrarily change the title of this article?

It's not the correct title and it's harder for the uninformed user to understand. If you told me about hard-coded DNS settings I would say "Ok, what does that mean and why does it matter?". If you said "Smart TVs ignore piholes" (the original title) I would know exactly why that's important.

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The new title seems more descriptive to me. How many people know what a pihole is, but not DNS? I understand DNS a lot better than pihole, which I've barely heard of.

I see pihole recommended constantly as a way to block ads.

> I understand DNS a lot better than pihole

Unless the mods did a survey this doesn't justify the title change. It's just as likely that more people are familiar with pihole than DNS, and if the mods don't know (which they don't) then they should leave the title as the author wrote it.

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