Modifying just DNS servers on a device can also open up complications later on with troubleshooting or potential intermittent outages which may be hard to identify, if you just have one or two devices with different settings from all your other devices. You'd be surprised how much info can be gleaned just from collating and analysing DNS queries.

So if you value privacy over anything else, you may wish to either run your own DNS server (very complicated) or just rely on your ISP's DNS server, instead of some mysterious third-party 'free' DNS service which does who-knows-what with the data they collect and match against your internet connection's IP address. AdGuard DNS moves to new addressesīear in mind that any DNS operator will be able to see what domains and services your device is requesting - a fundamental feature of how DNS works. That DNS IP address is AdGuard's old IP address, they've been advising people migrate to their new IP address for a while, they were talking about turning off the old IPs 'within two years' back in 2020. You'd have to login to your broadband routers configuration page and look around for any website blocking feature.Īt least one annoying part of webos its trending pop up bar can be blocked by adding this to your routers firewall block list. You could try blocking some of those LG servers via your network router if it has the capability, that might avoid the need to use the above. What you need is a Raspberry Pie mini computer, the Pie Hole blocking software and the list of IP addresses LG uses, and all these combined act as a network level blocker intercepting the IP traffic the TV is sending but setting this up is very technical. This only applies to internet video services, regular broadcast TV cannot be blocked.

LG's WebOS contacts internet servers for advertisements and while its possible to block some of these servers others cannot be blocked because the app your using has the ads embedded within it (e.g. It's partially possible but takes a lot of work, editing DNS wont work.

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