https://dominik.wombacher.cc/2021-10-10T00:00:00+02:002021-10-10T00:00:00+02:002021-10-10T00:00:00+02:00Dominik Wombachertag:dominik.wombacher.cc,2021-10-10:/posts/sky-ticket-tv-stick-roku-failed-to-connect-without-pihole-whitelisting.html

<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Dominik Wombacher <dominik@wombacher.cc> --> <!-- --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 --> <p>I'm using Sky Ticket (Germany) from time to time and got one of their TV Sticks, powered by Roku, for free. Had to learn that Roku connects to a few ... <a class="read-more" href="/posts/sky-ticket-tv-stick-roku-failed-to-connect-without-pihole-whitelisting.html"> [read more]</a></p>

<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Dominik Wombacher <dominik@wombacher.cc> --> <!-- --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 --> <p>I'm using Sky Ticket (Germany) from time to time and got one of their TV Sticks, powered by Roku, for free. Had to learn that Roku connects to a few Domains which are on blacklists used by Pi-hole and uBlock Origin.</p> <p>Was surprised that I can use Sky Ticket directly from a (Windows...) Notebook, without adjusting anything on my Pi-hole settings, but it fails when using the Roku Stick.</p> <p>Without adding <code>scribe.logs.roku.com</code> and <code>dpm.demdex.net</code> to the Pi-hole whitelist, it's impossible to connect to Sky Ticket, Roku complains always that <em>&quot;something went wrong&quot;</em>.</p> <p>Both seem to receive a lot of usage data and track everything what's done on the UI. I think that's just weird and unnecessary, looks like something all Roku devices do.</p> <p>Not really what I expect, paying for a Service and running in such issues, but if they happy to track how I navigate in the UI and decide what to watch, so it be...</p>