I made my tv semi dumb via a dns whitelist and some firewall rules.
Set up code to do dns forwarding/dropping on a raspberry pi pico for fun and its been working great. Only allows netflix/prime/disney+ and so far no ads.
Set up code to do dns forwarding/dropping on a raspberry pi pico for fun and its been working great. Only allows netflix/prime/disney+ and so far no ads.
2. When I buy I check reviews and avoid 4/5g or sidewalk.
3. If bought by mistake - return.
4. If left with no choice then:
- I will buy but not accept monitoring
- add automated gdpr request every month for my data and request to delete after.
- see what they return and figure out how it was captured (ex: kill microphone if audio data), sue if anything illegal
Technical wise, play around:
- custom firmware - if tvs get powerful enough to run full linux distributions then I would be very happy.
- desoldering/reusing 4/5g or sidewalk components on my other projects... (free connectivity on sensors on car/bike etc)
- replace board entirely with a raspberry or similar
How do you maintain the white list of domains for netflix/prime/disney+?
That's a nice idea, ping if you do get it working.
> How do you maintain the white list of domains for netflix/prime/disney+?
You can use any of existing whitelists for domains like this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JO2EY/Rules/master/Surge/R...
Domains for me are hardcoded, i recompile to change them (not ideal, i only did it to experiment and it's good enough so it stuck, also not much ram)
If things stop working I look at logs and update.
On other environments you could just present domains in a UI and have user block/allow/permanent block and hide. (that would be fine for me)
I am using NixOS and consuming my own infrastructure definition, so the config is currently not portable, but I have been thinking about splitting it out into multiple files and publishing it.