I use pfblocker ng and block the world inbound except my own region. It's using maxmind for IP geoloc. Never had any problem with any home automation. All these home automation normally speak to website that are hosted in your region.
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I do this. Generally no issues. I'm pretty sure some of the jank cheapo switches will route through the US or other proxy geo first anyway.
You can do it easily, its common practice. It's also pretty ineffective. You ever notice how VPN's advertise you can access content outside of your geo location? Surrpise, China can do that too!
We block all traffic that isn't from NA and Europe in our company (for our hosted applications). We don't have users outside that so have no reason to accept connections.
It's just part of our general security strategy
You could also go the extra step, and only have local automations in the home :) home assistant + choosing products well enables total local smarthome stuff. Although I don't have a robot vacuum.
All my services are self hosted too. Obviously there are limitations: I don't have fancy voice assistants like Alexa of the likes. But on the flip side I don't have spies in the house (well, there are... The android phones, and the windows and Mac computers...)
I've had china geo-blocked for about 6 months now. No issues so far.
If you aren't running a server/service, the best option is generally to unwrap a tinfoil layer.
Hilariously, posts like these also generally involve users running 'windows chocolate fireguard ', and quite happy with that gaping inadequacy..🤣🤣🤣
So you only want to be spyed on by the US government
Had this conversation with a coworker the other day. It's incredible to me that so many engineers just follow the standard "China bad, Russia Bad" blocklists, as if hosted servers don't exist and nothing in USA can be bad lol
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Did you analyze your traffic first? If you did, you probably wouldn't be asking this question.