That's a good thought to consider. I use Blokada on my Android and ublock or whatever on my laptop so haven't needed to go that far before, but unlike those a TV would stay on the same network at all times. Though I wonder if it would leave a giant empty space for an ad placeholder, or conversely if the ad servers never change if I could do something with just my router. And then there's tracking as well, but surely that's just similarly dealt with by blocking traffic... one would think.

All this seems potentially like it would wear the device down much more quickly, if the chip is sending multiple requests per minute, and getting blocked continues to do so, forever. I wonder if the device then instead of lasting a decade would last only a year at that point? At that point it would be worth buying a different brand that offers a potentially different solution.

So much to have to research and learn!

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

you can also block ads directly on your router by setting up a DNS that filters them out, it works for me