Captain_Faraday :fedora:<p>So <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://www.minds.com/naomibrockwell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>naomibrockwell</span></a></span> blew my mind about how are smart TVs are spying on us with Automatic Content Recognition and other advertising profile scripts. Yikes! Thanks for the heads up!<br><a href="https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQ</span><span class="invisible">iDSopBdqiS</span></a></p><p>I don’t have the resources to switch to a more secure streaming device yet (I’m gonna build one with mini PC running LibreELEC with Kodi hopefully).</p><p>In the meantime, I setup a Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi 3B I had laying around last night to block as many ads and outgoing unwanted scripts as I could.<br><a href="https://pi-hole.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pi-hole.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It is working great from what I tell! Even removed the ads from my Roku TV home pages lol! I’m sure some stuff is getting through, but at least it’s minimal.</p><p>Here is the PiHole install video I watched from Micro Center, but I also added SSH via private/public keys too. How to Block Ads Using a Pi-Hole With A Raspberry Pi<br><a href="https://youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahVN0F6UchwnP" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahV</span><span class="invisible">N0F6UchwnP</span></a></p><p>Oh and it has a built-in Star Trek NG LCARS theme!<br><a href="https://github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hole-star-trek-picard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hol</span><span class="invisible">e-star-trek-picard</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/pihole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pihole</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/pi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pi</span></a>-hole <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblocking</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/homenetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homenetworking</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/dataprivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprivacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/digitalrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalrights</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/mydatamychoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mydatamychoice</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/privacyisahumanright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacyisahumanright</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/privacymatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacymatters</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/blockads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blockads</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancecapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optout</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startrek</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/microcenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microcenter</span></a></p>