Or you could try to make the raspberry as a streaming box with kodi and freetube
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
Sleestak_Chaka@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I use FreeTube on my desktop and Newpipe on my GrapheneOS Pixel 7, I don’t see any ads or graphic overlays. The family uses AppleTV and the YouTube app is a horrible experience with the amount of ads, even for a 3 minute video. Future project is to look into Pihole or something to block ads at the router level.
iloverocks@feddit.de 8 months ago
Sleestak_Chaka@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If I was single it would be easier but ya know family 🤷♂️
iloverocks@feddit.de 8 months ago
Just do both leave the appletv for your family and use the raspberry if you start watching
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 months ago
FYI I’ve got a Samsung TV pointed at pihole for DNS and it blocks all of Samsung’s stupid telemetry (possibly some menu based ads too, not sure) but it is ineffective against YouTube due to the way they serve ads.
The ads come through unless you can magically recompile their YouTube app. An alternative would be to build a small form factor streaming PC and run YT in a legit browser with blocking and privacy plugins.