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additional entries from Philips Smart TV #106

Open Knuschberkeks opened 2 years ago

Knuschberkeks commented 2 years ago

Hi, my Philips Smart TV accesses these domains each night. I've had them blacklistet on my pihole for a few weeks and haven't noticed anything braking.

history.google.com footprints-pa.googleapis.com push.prod.netflix.com preapp.prod.partner.netflix.net mtalk.google.com alt1-mtalk.google.com alt2-mtalk.google.com alt3-mtalk.google.com alt4-mtalk.google.com alt5-mtalk.google.com alt6-mtalk.google.com alt7-mtalk.google.com alt8-mtalk.google.com alt9-mtalk.google.com

jawz101 commented 2 years ago

do you have Google Assistant on your TV? Or does your TV support Goolge Assistant?

Knuschberkeks commented 2 years ago

do you have Google Assistant on your TV? Or does your TV support Goolge Assistant?

It doesn't

jawz101 commented 2 years ago

https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002136864-The-Web-Filter-Logs-Are-Inundated-with-Requests-for-mtalk-google-com

Coincidentally, this weekend I helped my father with his smart TV and noticedSamsung TVs have a Chromium browser baked in. It looks like older versions of Chromium were chatty to these cloud messaging domains.

I wouldn't expect a public block list to block those entries because blocking these connections on a pi-hole because a TV hits them would also block an Android phone from having some of its Play Services, Play Store, or messaging apps from working properly.

Personally, I wouldn't block them for my whole network but I would be curious if I could get my TV to stop sending them. Can you go into the browser on the TV and check the settings. Also try typing in the address bar chrome://chrome-urls or chrome://flags and poke around? There might be ways to disable some flags relating to cloud, messaging, update, background, syncing, or anything else that sounds like some feature that would use some sort of connected features.

Like I disable things such as browser spell checkers, address bar predictions, etc. to prevent extraneous connections.