Yup. It’s disgusting how much your devices send home about you. Unfortunately no one in my household cares. I show them the data and they ask me to whitelist their devices.

Neat! So if I put my phone in the microwave it will reset the battery?

It’s basically a live-action version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Yeah, this doesn’t seem like that big of a deal for most people here. They kept the price down as long as possible. I spent $119 just before the 'rona hit and I think it’s been well worth it.

I can’t imagine that happening with today’s systems. Yes, it’s theoretically possible. It just seems unlikely that they’d go through the trouble of denying service to someone who didn’t fetch data from one specific domain but did get it from another.

Install a Pihole server on your network. It’s a DNS filter. When a client tries to access a domain that has been blacklisted (ie a known ad or tracker domain), it denies the lookup.

On my roku homescreen it just has an empty placeholder where it tried to put the ad, but my Pihole server denied it.

PiHole.

No, but plex has terrible support for audiobooks.

But how will I bring up my NAS in conversations at parties?

OK thanks. This makes sense. I guess if I’m going to go through the trouble of whitelisting the MAC, I can go and disable randomization on the device and assign it a static IP.

I see. Thanks.

What other way is there if the the IP is dynamic. I thought to create a whitelist for devices I had to add the client’s MAC to the custom group. It seems to work fine so far. I was just concerned that it wouldn’t continue to work if the iPhone changed its MAC.

Yes, they can just use a VPN. I’ve told this to several people in my life and many of them write that off as being too difficult to figure out. I even gave my VPN un & pw to a family member with a link to download the app and they still just said “nah.”

Some people just can’t be bothered to try, I guess.

I know how to get around it. I was curious to know the level at which it was being blocked. Is it the DNS, is it some kind of firewall…etc.

I don’t care if it lives or dies. I don’t use it at all but I was curious to know how the ban/block was being implemented.

So are American ISPs being forced to block TikTok’s server’s IPs?

It’s probably accurate. Imagine cubicles and desks smoldering in a filthy, smokey heap, copy machines smashed through the windows, sparking electrical conduit dangling from the ceiling. It’s likely madness.

I have the same question. It seems like a step backwards.

Get a Kill-a-Watt meter.

What does this mean? What use would “their clients” need access to your network? What are they routing to through your network and how does that help with efficiency?

They donate your kill to a homeless shelter.