I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.
Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven’t already.
I made my Smart TV into a dumb TV by never activating the smart TV functions. And then I plugged a relatively cheap computer into it. So I don’t have this kind of problem.
That is the way
I recently took my brand new stupid fucking tv off the grid. I use Apple TV so not a big deal with the ads and shit but the damn thing forced an update mid movie, reset, and black screened. Couldn’t get it back on and went to bed, figured I’d deal with it in the morning. Luckily it worked the next day after that no more internet for you.
That is absolute cancer.
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I mean… Historically I find the superbowl ads (and the halftime show) more entertaining than the actual game, but damn that is shitty.
Get a cheap computer and connect the tv to it; get a mouse and bluetooth keyboard or an air mouse if your want to; install kodi perhaps, or just have your bare desktop. Problem solved
Disconnect the tv to wifi too.
There are some cheap Bluetooth TV remotes so if you want to take some time out of your day, there’s a few Linux distros that ship with similar GUI to some TV’s.
Sorry, I’m confused. You should easily be able to block these home screen ads ads with pihole or router dns blocking. I know because I do it with my smart tvs. Are you saying that that isn’t working?
Yo dawg! I heard you like ads. So we put ads in your ads
I’d honestly return it as faulty. Preloaded adware shouldn’t be acceptable.
Most smart TV OS are Cancer doesn’t matter how much you paid for it
Disable all internet functionality, set the time to the 1990s to prevent many timers from going off, attach the tv to another device that doesn’t have ads via your cable of choice. But why was your smart tv 1700? Did it have some special features?
Probably 4k oled
Have you ever looked at OLED TV prices? This is absolutely a normal price.
Apple TV was the best media thing I’ve bought in over a decade. No ads ever, incredibly responsive (league of its own compared to stuff like Roku), and is able to stream from my Jellyfin server. Beautiful interface, fast, clean, simple controller with a battery life that is easily over a year. Just a really good product. Roku can suck by nuts. Literal full page ads in a product that advertises that it has zero of them. Even the most expensive version. Fuck Roku.
Same here. One is the best made TV boxes period.
how does it go for codec support out of Jellyfin? I’m starting to collect and also rip AV1 content, which is fine for computers and phones (and my newer TV does it natively), but trying to find a streambox that wouldn’t need to transcode it is proving harder than expected
It software decodes AV1 which seems to work fine. For Plex, I think you still need to do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/12pe5tx/av1_playback_on_apple_tv/
The bigger limitation is audio. The Apple TV does lossless audio but what it does not do is TrueHD/Atmos or DTS:X. With Infuse TrueHD and DTS-HD MA are decoded on the device and sent out as LPCM in the same quality they were received. With Plex TrueHD is transcoded to FLAC by the server and sent out as LPCM by the Apple TV. Atmos and DTS:X metadata is lost. The Apple TV will never send out DD+. It will be sent out as 5.1 or 7.1 LPCM. DD+/Atmos is sent out Dolby MAT encapsulated in LPCM.
Long story short, it’s good enough if you don’t use atmos ceiling speakers.
Have a previous gen 4K, and have not encountered any issues with Jellyfin on streaming. There’s a spectacularly annoying bug that you lose your config if the atv is full to capacity - and with kids in the house it means frequent logins are required. The iOS client also seems to lag on features and updates compared to the other clients, but other than that niggle it’s been great.
Don’t ever connect a “smart” tv to the internet. Period.
Congratulations! So, how does the TV work with the adblocker set up?
It’s absolutely no different! The TV is doing something weird to get around it, or these ads are just cached from earlier. I’m not sure yet. Good news is that the ad blockers definitely works, we’re getting 96/100 on https://adblock-tester.com/
DNS calls are definitely cached. You’ll have to wait a few days until your TV refreshes DNS entries.
what brand is it? just to know what to avoid
Check for HTTPS traffic as well as the regular let 53. They could be doing DNS over HTTPS to get around the block, or a static IP for a nameserver.
meta-ad-ception
Ads within an ad, about about ads.
