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Smart TVs taking snapshots of your screen and phoning home - Is there a list of IP ranges to block? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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My question is: Can you block the IPs it's phoning home to without breaking other TV functions, like OS/app updates, etc? Is there a list of IPs available for smart TVs specifically that keep the fingerprint from being received by the mfg?

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most likely it's calling home using a fqdn. Set up your own DNS, force all your devices to use it (use dnat in your firewall). Then watch which fqdn's you TV uses and blacklist those. That's how I do it ( I use technitium DNS)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure, that applies when you are tech savvy. The problem comes to all tv sets elsewhere, where people is completely unaware of the issue. There should be an option to fully opt-out of any telemetry, or vendors to open the specs on the tv bootloader so it can be "easily" replaced

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Most simply don't care. Don't think there is a turn-key solution. Just look up pihole and take it from there.

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