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. - eviltoast
  • LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Thank you for the reply - you’ve offered a great opportunity to ask another question 😂

    I was looking at adguard. Is this something worth the subscription? I was looking at it because it seems to handle a lot of ads, including those on mobile games and stuff. But in my cursory glance, people are saying it’s not safe…

    I’ll look at the GL-iNet because a) I want a powerhouse and b) I want nothing to do with flashing firmware haha

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      AdGuard as a service is alright, but it’s essentially just a pihole that you don’t have any control over. It does DNS level blocking, which means the ads get blocked before they even load on your network.

      The issue is that since you’re routing all of your DNS traffic through AdGuard, you’re directly telling AdGuard which sites you are using. So there are concerns that you are just shifting the data collection from the ad companies to AdGuard instead, but AdGuard has the ability to be way more invasive in how the collect data.

      Just set up dual piholes (one for your primary DNS, and one for your secondary DNS) instead. You get the exact same end result, without any of the data collection worry.

      • LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        Thank you for your detailed responses. Has adguard any track record of collecting data? Is there a way to know?