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Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've been using a Chromecast for years. I cast whatever I want from my phone. It plays media and that's it.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 24 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't bet on one of the biggest data harvesters not using a smart device to harvest data.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The newer Chromecasts won't even let you use your own DNS.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Buy an old used one off ebay or something, then. By the time they go so far out of support they stop working, I'm sure there'll be a replacement.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't out of support at the time, and I bought it before they gimped it. Google is actively preventing the use of Pihole or AdGuard by disabling the device if you redirect DNS queries away from their servers to your own.

[–] Amius@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't experienced this. I have the Chromecast with Google TV dongle and use a DST Nat to redirect all traffic from 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to my own DNS server.

I also did this with my old Chromecast only from phone version

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe I should have specifically mentioned that it's the ultras.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/pmt4cw/chromecast_ultra_just_updated_and_now_wont_work/

https://xdaforums.com/t/chromecast-ultra-issue-with-custom-dns.4396853/

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/custom-dns-group-for-chromecast/50996

It's a bit of niche arrangement, so finding out what happened when it suddenly stopped working was a challenge.

[–] Amius@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Gross. Thanks for the sources. Strange that it's just the ultras.