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today I fucking learned Roku is now a Murdoch Box.

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[–] ChunkyPud@lemmy.world 29 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Last month I took my Roku offline but let it connect to LAN so the Jellyfin app would work (for now until it gets too out of date probably). I knew Fox would fuck things up somehow and I was right sooner than expected.

As an aside, it’s still connected to my pihole and for about a week it tried to send logging data to 2 different websites every 3 seconds for around a week. It was funny seeing my blocked percentage at 91.5%, even funnier that it’s programmed to give up.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Last time I put a Roku behind DNS filtering it just started spamming it's logging server because it couldn't make contact. I ended up just letting it through instead of going through the hassle of spoofing a response to make it shut up.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 minutes ago

Why do that? It's not hurting anything.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It probably gives up only not to accidentally DDOS their own telemetry servers

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago

Or maybe it's just a reaally slow exponential backoff