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Advice on blocking Youtube ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello scurvy dogs

Im looking for some advice on how I should go about continuing to watch youtube while blocking / bypassing ads on my LG TV.

I recently ended my premium subscription because of price hikes and such but webOS on LG TVs is very restrictive with its apps.

Ive started to use LibreTube on my devices which is awsome but ive only got a couple of options that might work on the telly:

1- I host a local Jellyfin server for all our other content needs so maybe i can integrate youtube into this somehow.

2- Ive got a spare Pi 3b laying around that I could use as something and just HDMI to the TV which im fine with.

Currently I think that maybe running android on the Pi and then using LibreTube on that is my best option.

So my question is, what do you guys use / what are your setups to watch youtube ad free on ya TV?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I can tell you the easiest and cheapest way to do it

Buy one of those little android TV steaming ONN dongles from Walmart. They are like twenty or thirty bucks. Then sideload SmartTube to it.

Enjoy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think they could install android TV on that pi they have, make this solution free.

Idk, not something I've done, and based on 30 seconds of googling it it looks like it would be annoying, but I'll let OP decide what is worth doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've seen way too many reports about how those things are filled with spyware to ever trust them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the great thing about Android, you can just disable everything you don't want to run. That's what I did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure that's perfectly fine in 99.9% of cases but I can never rid that niggling doubt in the back of my head that thinks the cheap devices (especially Chinese) are backdoored or have some deeper malware embedded on the system. It's the unknown that kills me, as stupid as that is. At least I know what type of shit LG TV is phoning home.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on-amazon-are-laced-with-malware/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, they seem to work pretty well. They sell these on the shelf in Walmart. Seems to be mostly bloat free, if not disable the stuff. They are pretty fast, the remote is good. I run a VPN on mine anyway. For the price they are probably the best bang for the buck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll have to look into it more seriously. I've been considering a ChromeCast for a while but this is swaying me more to the Android TV side. I usually don't make these purchases lightly or until I have a really strong motivation to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean for twenty bucks, you wouldn't be out much. Check out it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I got a chromecast with remote used for $23 and put smart tube on it. With a third party launcher no ads.