PeterLiljedahl
Occasional Visitor
Does anybody know how these built-in youtube apps work in smart TVs?.
I have an almost 10 year old Sony TV and it doesn't like being blocked using Diversion
but I have to add an extra pixelsrv instance IP which TheLonelyCoder nicely provided to bypass filtering
and therefore can reach whatever it wants to reach.
If trying to use the built-in youtube app without this bypass it will close down and generate an internal browser error.
On some forum they claimed it needed to reach some ad server and if not it generates this error.
I havent used any tool to inspect what it is it wants to connect to yet since my experience is somewhat limited.
I dont know how diversion nor adguard home works, but is it not possible for the router to trick the TV into
thinking it has contacted the ad server?
Is the problem that this communication is encrypted from the beginning and therefore hard to interprete
for both diversion and adguard home?
If this communication is encrypted from the beggining, it means the TV needs to download some certificate
to be able to encrypt/decrypt the communication with the server which means the router could serve this
certificate to the TV instead of the certificate server.
The TV has network setup such that DNS1 and DNS2 could be setup but that doesn't seem to work
when the traffic runs through diversion.
Maybe I am overcomplicating things, maybe the communication is not encrypted at all but instead the
TV wants to reach an ad server which is included in the block list but if this is the case why cant the router
pretend to be this server and just have a keep alive pulse with the TV?
Have a nice weekend
I have an almost 10 year old Sony TV and it doesn't like being blocked using Diversion
but I have to add an extra pixelsrv instance IP which TheLonelyCoder nicely provided to bypass filtering
and therefore can reach whatever it wants to reach.
If trying to use the built-in youtube app without this bypass it will close down and generate an internal browser error.
On some forum they claimed it needed to reach some ad server and if not it generates this error.
I havent used any tool to inspect what it is it wants to connect to yet since my experience is somewhat limited.
I dont know how diversion nor adguard home works, but is it not possible for the router to trick the TV into
thinking it has contacted the ad server?
Is the problem that this communication is encrypted from the beginning and therefore hard to interprete
for both diversion and adguard home?
If this communication is encrypted from the beggining, it means the TV needs to download some certificate
to be able to encrypt/decrypt the communication with the server which means the router could serve this
certificate to the TV instead of the certificate server.
The TV has network setup such that DNS1 and DNS2 could be setup but that doesn't seem to work
when the traffic runs through diversion.
Maybe I am overcomplicating things, maybe the communication is not encrypted at all but instead the
TV wants to reach an ad server which is included in the block list but if this is the case why cant the router
pretend to be this server and just have a keep alive pulse with the TV?
Have a nice weekend