Turns out, my ISP has silently done a transparent DNS redirection. And their DNS servers are bad. Had to change to DoT to get it working. Something I should have done long ago anyway.
I run a DNS server on a raspberry pi and block only those domains where LG gets ads and promoted content from. I can then have a clean and responsive interface while services like Netflix still work.
Turns out, my ISP has silently done a transparent DNS redirection. And their DNS servers are bad. Had to change to DoT to get it working. Something I should have done long ago anyway.