…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.
  • @[email protected]English
    23•5 months ago

    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!

    • @[email protected]English
      14•5 months ago

      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

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        5•5 months ago

        That (and PiHole) will only work as long as Roku doesn’t start using DoH.

          • lemmyvoreEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•5 months ago

              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.

              • lemmyvoreEnglish
                1•5 months ago

                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.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•5 months ago

                  By default devices should expect their requests to go over the internet where DoH is very important. Over LAN much less so ofc.

        • Dark ArcEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          The Department of Holes!?? Gosh… I knew PiHole’s time was limited but it’s too soon 😥