Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.

Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Use an old laptop or minipc with an air remote, that’s what I do and it’s way better than any of the tv box alternatives. I’ve got an easy to control cursor, media buttons, and there’s a full keyboard on the back of the remote. No more messing with stupid on screen keyboards. Would never go back to regular ‘SmartTV’ apps or features.

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• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  DNS Adblocking although you’ll need special rules for your tv (each vendor varies) and it has limitations. The ad networks have known about dns Adblocking as long as it’s existed so they circumvent it. On a pc with something like ublock (especially the old manifest 3 version) you can also stop scripts used to get around this but obviously on tv that’s not an option (plus it doesn’t always work, cat and mouse game)

  I’d really like the ad industry to burn and everyone who works in it to go to jail

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• zombaya01@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I currently use newpipe on my phone, from which I can share YouTube-movies to bubbleUPnP which can stream to my television. Somehow that results in no ads on the television. It’s a great way for longer videos. For shorter it’s not that good as you can’t simply go to the next movie.

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  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have Newpipe already installed. I’ll give that a try!

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