myrakle

OpenVPN has high demand on CPU power, and multiple cores don't help. Performance on routers is especially bad.

DD-WRT would probably let you block domains. Pi-hole might be useful too. To be effective, you need your black or white listing to be device specific, so that you can block your smart TV in whatever way you want to without affecting other devices.

Actually, white listing is a better idea. You can white list with the PCWRT router too.

I use the PCWRT router, and it allows me to block the spying by blacklisting the relevant domains.

https://www.pcwrt.com/2018/08/how-to-use-your-router-to-bloc...

There were multiple instances of Echo waking up when the user didn't utter the wake word.

That's pretty impressive. Only 300 000 users affected & still promising to do better next year!

It can't be truly private as long as the data is still on their servers.

No offline backups?