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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Some Google Home Speakers downloading massive amounts of data in the background

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Some Google Home Speakers downloading massive amounts of data in the background

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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The new Google Home Speaker has an issue where it downloads hundreds of gigabytes of data in the background for some owners.
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    They do, but thankfully with pfSense you can do DNS overrides with firewall rules to force all network devices to use local DNS, blocking everything else.

    https://dominetec.com.br/en/redirect-all-dns-requests-to-pfsense-router

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      Neat! Trying this in a few minutes. Be lovely having everything go through my local Pihole VM.

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      next move is theirs… knight to queen’s dns-over-https

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        That’ll get blocked too.

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          How?

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            Carefully.

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              While nuking all https?

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                7 hours ago

                Smarter people than me have figured out more difficult problems.

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        There are several DoH IP lists on github. Find one that is staying updated and use it as an alias to block them all

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