IOT home devices using cell data? In Canada? It would either come with a hefty monthly fee, or the appliance company would lose their shirt.

Cell companies here put a lot of effort into keeping the prices up.

Might fly south of the border though.

So, what happens if I use pi-hole or adguard to block DNS for the advertisement TLDs, like I do for all the other gizmos in the house trying to show me ads or obtain telemetry data?

Bash scripting, firewall config, vpn tunnelling, and containerization ( rootless Podman ).

I’m into combining these in interesting ways.

While it could be argued that there are tons of communities for these, combining them to run secure apps or automate their setups don’t seem to be as popular.

It’s a hot topic at social events, as you can imagine.