im looking to get an appletv, cause its basically the most privacy-friendly streaming box you can get (unless you make a linux box of course), but im not sure if you can use something like smarttube on an appletv. I can barely watch youtube with the ads its insane. I found three apps on github but idk if they’re any good so here they are: SmartTube-IOS(https://github.com/say4n/SmartTube-iOS), yattee(https://github.com/yattee/yattee) and Unwatched(https://github.com/fer0n/Unwatched)
thank guy
AFAIK there’s no way, and the VPNs you can get don’t block YouTube ads, even if you pay them.
I also have a MacBook, so I just AirPlay to the TV (could also connect HDMI to Thunderbolt) and then do it in the browser. Of course the go-to is usually Firefox+uBlock Origin, but I use Safari+Wipr2 (not free; I paid $5 because it also works on iOS… sadly not tvOS).
Apple’s been rumoured to drop a new ATV box for a couple years now. According to MacRumors, it’s been coming out next week for at least the past year. I suppose, one of these days, they’ll be right.
If I didn’t already have one, I’d look into the lowest-powered Linux box I could connect to HDMI with 4K output for the TV, run Firefox+uBlock Origin on it, and get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo unit, and that would be that. Some paid streamers wouldn’t work well on it, but it would run Plex or Jellyfin just fine.
No way.