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NoUserNamesLeft98 t1_jb9ec4t wrote

Reply to comment by Jerkofalljerks in All the streaming boxes suck now - There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. by speckz

We have a couple Rokus + ad blocking at our router. No joke, the router blocked 130,000 ad requests from the 2 Rokus last week, and a lulzy 183,000 a couple weeks previous. I have no idea why they do this, but 183,000 is about 1 request each per second.

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toddklindt t1_jb9ml2d wrote

I have Rokus behind a PiHole. They generate a lot of traffic. I think the majority of it is telemetry, as opposed to requests for ads. That being said, I think Roku behind PiHole is about perfect. There are no ads, and its search will let you search for a show and it will tell you which service it's on. I prefer its spartan interface to one that's busy, or has a grid. I rarely channel surf. When I watch TV it's deliberate. A grid does me no good.

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zzazzzz t1_jbs935y wrote

its becuse you block it, it requests an ad, connection gets holed. so it retries to fetch the ad ad infinitum.

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