I don’t think I could have set it up. After it was connected, there’s no way to disconnect it, which seems to be a growing tactic. I’ve seen several TVs that have no WiFi disconnect button.
I did something like that with my robot vacuum. I opened it up and ripped the soldered-on wifi card. Now I can’t control it from my phone, but it can’t phone home to Shark either. I was willing to risk it for a $400 robot vacuum, which I also happened to have a second defective one to practice on thanks to their return policy. I’m not sure if I’d attempt this on an electronics behemoth worth several thousands of dollars that I can’t afford to lose.
This, only correct answer, and the only correct source to make your decision off of. Any other opinions being tossed around are mostly speculation by people who probably don’t actually know that much about tracker prevention.
I’m not an expert on what makes a “good DNS”, but I have been using a pi-hole for about 5 years and it has been super stable the whole time, despite my best efforts.
The idea that things could be deleted by you at any time was always delusional, fediverse or otherwise. There are more meaningful privacy battles to fight anyways.
“Friendly” is not the name I would use for my average counterstrike team.