These are not "streaming boxes" in the sense you are talking about. Their appeal is that they come preloaded with chinese pirate streaming apps. Traditional streaming boxes - Apple TV, Fire stick, Roku - are not affected by this, though if you want privacy-focused Apple TV is the only remaining contender, and with Apple's continued descent into advertising vendor I'd guess that one is not long for this world, either.

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giantg2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My understanding is that Roku bypasses DNS blocking with hardcoded tables so it can report back on various data they track on you.

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timbit42 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you monitor its traffic and block by IP?

	▲	mikestew an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I’m sure you could. At what point do you just rip out the thing that is trying so hard to work around your control of your network? An Apple TV doesn’t cost that much.
	▲	kube-system 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The door is slowly closing on all of these blocking schemes by moving ad content to the same domains as the primary content. This is already a common feature for analytics toolkits.
	▲	giantg2 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I probably could, but haven't done so yet.