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The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by GooseFinger to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm trying to understand why this is marked as NSFW... I must be missing something?

The intrusion of ads is annoying AF, I agree. I'll have to look into that link for DNS ad-blocking, thanks!