The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads

[goosefinger@sh.itjust.works]

I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.

Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven't already.

Wiki link

[zeppo@lemmy.world]

is this about the stupid football thing?

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Most smart TV OS are Cancer doesn't matter how much you paid for it

[goosefinger@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah I guess the superbowl is soon, there's another row of football ads one or two rows up. I'll remind myself that I paid for the TV, the electricity to run it, and the bandwidth to connect it, yet I'm still shown full screen ads first thing when I turn my TV on. And I don't even watch football. And I can't disable it.

Corporate America and gargle my balls

[gullible@sh.itjust.works]

Disable all internet functionality, set the time to the 1990s to prevent many timers from going off, attach the tv to another device that doesn’t have ads via your cable of choice. But why was your smart tv 1700? Did it have some special features?

[datendefekt@feddit.org]

Congratulations! So, how does the TV work with the adblocker set up?

[goosefinger@sh.itjust.works]

It's absolutely no different! The TV is doing something weird to get around it, or these ads are just cached from earlier. I'm not sure yet. Good news is that the ad blockers definitely works, we're getting 96/100 on https://adblock-tester.com/

[brobot9000@lemmy.world]

Don’t ever connect a “smart” tv to the internet. Period.

[tyler@programming.dev]

Apple TV was the best media thing I’ve bought in over a decade. No ads ever, incredibly responsive (league of its own compared to stuff like Roku), and is able to stream from my Jellyfin server. Beautiful interface, fast, clean, simple controller with a battery life that is easily over a year. Just a really good product. Roku can suck by nuts. Literal full page ads in a product that advertises that it has zero of them. Even the most expensive version. Fuck Roku.

[sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip]

meta-ad-ception

Ads within an ad, about about ads.

[kusivittula@sopuli.xyz]

what brand is it? just to know what to avoid

[nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org]

Check for HTTPS traffic as well as the regular let 53. They could be doing DNS over HTTPS to get around the block, or a static IP for a nameserver.

[robottoaster@mander.xyz]

I'd honestly return it as faulty. Preloaded adware shouldn't be acceptable.

[gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com]

how does it go for codec support out of Jellyfin? I'm starting to collect and also rip AV1 content, which is fine for computers and phones (and my newer TV does it natively), but trying to find a streambox that wouldn't need to transcode it is proving harder than expected

[libb@jlai.lu]

We have not owned a TV since the 00s and have no intention of buying one any time soon, but I had a look at the FUTO website you linked and it's interesting read (even for the non-expert I'm).

Thx for sharing

[jackhammer_joe@lemmy.world]

Yo dawg! I heard you like ads. So we put ads in your ads

[troublesometalker@feddit.uk]

Have a previous gen 4K, and have not encountered any issues with Jellyfin on streaming. There's a spectacularly annoying bug that you lose your config if the atv is full to capacity - and with kids in the house it means frequent logins are required. The iOS client also seems to lag on features and updates compared to the other clients, but other than that niggle it's been great.

[datendefekt@feddit.org]

DNS calls are definitely cached. You'll have to wait a few days until your TV refreshes DNS entries.

[richardisaguy@lemmy.world]

Get a cheap computer and connect the tv to it; get a mouse and bluetooth keyboard or an air mouse if your want to; install kodi perhaps, or just have your bare desktop. Problem solved

Disconnect the tv to wifi too.

[ramenshaman@lemmy.world]

I mean... Historically I find the superbowl ads (and the halftime show) more entertaining than the actual game, but damn that is shitty.