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Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have blokada on mine I had whitelisted all the amazon servers it connects with but when I read this I removed them all to stop it updating hopefully.

Will probably work until I get round to trying the xda fix.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does that help? For me it doesn't stop anything. It looks like it uses DoH or something to bypass filtering.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Well mine didn't update at all until I manually added the servers from amazon it was blocking by default.

    So I kind of assume taking them off again is a temporary solution. That said I can't guarantee they haven't changed anything since then and I might wake up to a worse fire cube sometime.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Firesticks use a hardcoded backup DNS which can't be changed/disabled without root access. This renders DNS level blocking useless because they'll just use their backup DNS if your DNS resolves to 127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0

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