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Anon buys a TV without researching (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's something you want to tackle, but making a separate VLAN on your home LAN and shifting all the IoT/smart devices to that network can keep them from whatever snooping or spying these devices might do on your LAN that you work and live on. Plus you can more easily monitor the unreasonably chatty ones and block them or at least prune off their ad-seeking IP addresses. PiHole for a home LAN can help a lot too, but that's another discussion.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh I do have a VLAN for my reolink cameras and some other home built iOT devices with adguard running on my primary LAN (two adguard instances for redundancy).

But I'd still not want to waste any bandwidth on "smart" devices.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Nice. Totally understandable. We have unlimited DL/UL, but I don’t support leeches on our LAN.