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An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping (blog.includesecurity.com)
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[โ€“] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not blocking a DNS server, it's using DNS to block their specific servers.

[โ€“] manopor@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.