I hated FireTV exactly because of the ads. Now I am using Roku comes with the TV. Roku has ad too, but not overwhelming.
In the future, maybe the only choice is no-brand Android TV box/ stick which has ads removed.
In the future, maybe the only choice is no-brand Android TV box/ stick which has ads removed.
While technically accurate, you also need a $10 SD card, a $3 usb cable, and a $5-10 power brick, so you’re really looking at a $25 solution here.
I never use SD cards, but I have at least four of them in my drawer...
This is not a "cat and mouse" game, like in-browser ad-blockers where the advertisers change something then the ad-blockers try to catch that. The in-browser ad-blockers have a lot more flexibility with blocking content since they are, basically, the consumer of that content.
With PiHole, there is a point in which PiHole can just DO. NOTHING. to block content. If Google TV fetches its ads/spyware from playstore.google.com (for example), and uses https, what can PiHole do?
Not even MitM, because Google will just pin the certificate. And let's not even get started on DNS-over-HTTPS...
PiHole and the like are not long-term solutions.
I don’t use anything Google so your point, whilst true, doesn’t affect me. In fact I use PiHole to block Google and its tentacles from entering my network.