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[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You probably can give it a static ip through your router and block any access to the internet for it. Could even set up pihole to block the ads from coming in to any device. That said, it's possible the TV has built in ads or error messages to show in place of the ads when offline/blocked, or may just not even work if offline for longer than x minutes/hours/days

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think a PiHole wouldn't work cause the ads come from the same place as the videos

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Samsung, AFAIK, doesn't have a streaming service so that doesn't matter.

We weren't talking about ADs on some streaming service, we're talking about ADs displayed on the TV from Samsung themselves

Also, AD proxying with content isn't always guaranteed, I've seen YT do it ofc

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

I was reading “Active Directory” and it made it all the more glorious.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Not sure about Samsung devices but I've got a few Rokus and my pihole does a great job of blocking ads.

They still push "promotions" into the menus and every month I have to go through and turn them off, but I don't see ads in the UI.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have an old Intel nuc that I could slap a hard drive in. It wouldn't have to handle all traffic, right?

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

That should be fine, most people use raspberry pi's as a pihole server so a much shouldn't have any problems handling it

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

That will definitely work for a Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home. If it has 2 network controllers, you could even set it up as a router and firewall with OPNsense. That would allow you to do even cooler stuff like DNS packet redirection for devices/applications that have a hardcoded DNS server.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Only DNS lookups. And it's lightweight enough you could have an original NUC, set up a pi hole LXC on proxmox, and have plenty of power left over for other tasks.