• anivia@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    You are talking about the same Asus that uses proprietary Trend Micro spyware on all its routers? At least it can be disabled, but by default it is enabled and spies on you

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      11 months ago

      Yes. I thus recommend to flash Asuswrt-merlin. It is based on the stock Asus firmware, plus some features and minus some inconveniences as the one you mention.

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        11 months ago

        I assume if it can be flashed it can take OpenWRT too? I like the aesthetic, but IDK I think I’d rather not support them at all if they put spying software on their stock installs.

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          11 months ago

          I have a ASUS RTAX53U running OpenWrt 23.05.

          Here you can find a list of devices supported by the current version.