I have OpenWRT 22.03 installed and am soon upgrading my TV. Its a new LG and I want to block the surveillance on a network level. What is they 'right' way to do this? At the moment the OpenWRT router is vanilla and does the DNS and DHCP, I have a redirect for all port 53 traffic to the router to stop other DNS being used. I'd prefer not to install adblock or pihole.
Second query - What's the tcpdump command so i can see what websites the LG is accessing? The LG software has updated and I'm wondering if they will do some way.
Yes I want to keep it connected to the internet. I just want to try to stop it surveilling me. i might use some of the WebOS features.
What benefit does pihole and adguard give me over just making a hosts list? Will they actually stops ads being delivered to the TV? I thought video ads were very difficult to block?
@darksky, if I understand correctly, VLAN will allow the device to access the internet, but not to "see" the rest of the network (which was one of my question in my post here: Wireless bridge with ASUS RT-10 B1). Does VLAN reduce the performances of the connection?
Would it be equivalent to some VPN services that offer some DNS filtering?
I should keep that in my when I update my material then (besides being old and slow, my ASUS RT seems not compatible with VLAN, according to the page here: Wireless bridge with ASUS RT-10 B1) . I will try to learn more about VLANs, but it seems that some interesting things can be managed (separation between different wifi clients; work and home PCs... Apologies if I am just discovering this, routing is a new world to me)
Communication with third parties is mentioned in the optional agreements you can chose to accept when you initialise/set your TV up. If you change your mind, and wish to revoke those agreements, you should be able to "remove" your agreement from the configuration screens, but this will likely disable some features.
my skills (your thread seems way above my current level of knowledge)
Although I have really appreciated you reply, since it helps me along the path of starting to understand what I regarded as "black boxes", I need much more work before being ready for such a configuration. Let's hope in the future ...
I don't trust these agreements so i want to do it technically. I just don't believe any manufacturer as its just not in their DNA to care about things like this.
Not what you asked for, but I operate my nominally smart tv as simple hdmi monitor... in my case that just moves the problem around a bit, but apple was spying on me anyways (I use 'itunes', erm apple movies as it seems to be called currently).
I am back to the topic because I need to plan my update of the wireless bridge.
I have few questions:
what is the difference between the solutions above? In a very basic way: effectiveness vs easiness to install in a OpenWRT device and use it
would it work even if the OpenWRT device is set up as a wireless bridge?
if a device is conneted to the wireless bridge with a VPN enabled, would the internet connection work? Or are there any incompatibilities between these tools and the VPN on the device?
if I configure the VPN (OpenVPN) directly on the wireless bridge, that would not be allow any pi-hole / AdguardHome / Ad blocking, right?