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Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.
This way, when an owner of a Roku TV takes a short break from playing a game on their Xbox, or streaming something on an Apple TV device connected to the TV set, Roku would use that break to show ads. Roku engineers have even explored ways to figure out what the consumer is doing with their TV-connected device in order to display relevant advertising.
Use a pi hole to filter that shit by DNS
You ever see what an LG does to a Pihole block log? They try to phone home every minute.
Unless tbey start doing DNS over HTTPS or TLS, in which case cut that thing off from any network connections whatsoever