it's ridiculous to me the amount of queries being blocked by pihole. 23% of my dns queries are being shitcanned by the most simple of lists, plus the domains I hellbanned by watching my TV's dns queries for an hour while I messed around with things to try to turn off all of its ads and such.
23% of my dns traffic is ads and tracking and telemetry garbage.
I also use browser based ad blocking so that's probably doing a lot of heavy lifting on its own.
one thing I do know is: I just ordered an apple tv and once it arrives the TV's wifi is getting completely shut off, I'm going to ban its mac address from my wifi router, and it will never talk to the internet again.
I know that apple is also harvesting some data about my usage, but I trust them more than I do all of whoever has their fingers in my TV's pie.
My mom was just complaining about her TV and I told her how I had my old one fixed when it broke, partially because the new ones are so full of garbage, and I don't have the TV directly connected to the internet.
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