Yup. And it’s worth noting that my two smart TVs are the noisiest devices on my network, by far. Like it’s not even close. In a heavy day of doing nothing but doomscrolling and casual browsing, my phone may get 1700-2000 blocked requests. My smart TVs typically hit 5500-6000 blocked requests each.

Which, when you do the math, comes out to a failed request every ~15 seconds. Which means they’re probably attempting to reach the server, getting blocked, timing out after ~15 seconds, and then retrying. If they were logging each failed attempt as an error and never purging their old logs, I can see how it would slowly but surely fill their storage space.

This may work today, but it take very little effort for the TV manufacturers to default to DNS over HTTPS to bypass these DNS based filtering. I'd recommend keeping TV's off the network completely. I wish the DRM mafia weren't keeping open competitors away. There's no reason we should have privacy respecting TV boxes, except that the power is in the streaming platform companies hands, and they don't want to enable anything even slightly open.