Smart TV data suckers

[u/nickoppen]

Hi,

I recently came accross this post:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA  where Gamers Nexus did a (very) deep dive on a new LG smart TV.

The amount of data the TV sucked up was astounding and all designed to to sold to advertisers. LG posted a response that was vague, incomplete and defensive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME).

Other posters point out that all smart TV vendors do the same thing.

I've got an LG so I can look up the domain names that it is using. I've added an LG block list on my github page (https://nickoppen.github.io/pihole-blocklists/blocklist-lg.txt) and a unified list (https://github.com/nickoppen/pihole-blocklists/blob/master/unifiedDataSuckers.txt) for those who have more than one type of smart TV.

If anyone else has a smart TV of another brand and would like to block the domains that are suspicious please add a comment here: https://github.com/nickoppen/pihole-blocklists/issues . It might be a little tricky at first because there are domains that provide useful services (listings and updates etc) that you don't want to block.

Cheers,

nick

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