Looking forward at it!!
I am happy the National Observer picked her up and I like what this segment will become, not to happy she is posting on youtube, as I am trying to get away from it. Stopped paying for Premium, and have started downsizing my subscriptions.
I am looking for ways to say arr and 🏴☠️ youtube stuff to degoogle my life.
Firefox + Ublock + sponsor block
Works desktop or android
Yes but I am looking for an option for my TV. Not to interested in sending everything from my iPad to my TV, I may break because the ads on youtube are so annoying.
I have a pi 5 that I am considering using as an option but I I do like the idea of having a remote control.
If you’re into, or don’t ming getting into self hosting, I use iSponsorBlockTV. It keeps tabs on all the Chromecast or smart TVs in your house and automatically sends skip commands when you get to in segment ads.
I have Premium so I don’t have regular ads, but I belive it can do that as well and if not, pairing it with a traditional DNS blocker like a piehole should do the job.
I do not care about the in video advertisements, I can skip those it is the ads I was not getting when I was a premium subscriber.
If you have an android TV, you can get smarttube
AppleTV
While Firefox is open source the company in charge of it is based in the US.
There are Firefox derivatives which are functionally equivalent for these purposes.
I use Zen browser but there are others. These still rely on Mozilla for primary browser engine development but is independent and community-driven.
I have the osmc remote which I believe you should be able to make work on a pi 5 and kodi . Probably other choices too, pishop.ca has many options.
I got a very cheap second hand HP G4 mini PC with a Bluetooth remote control.
It sits under my TV, and I use it for all my downloading needs (away from any computer that gets used for email or banking, etc), playing videos, and emulated games with an old Xbox controller.
Works faster than anything built into the TV, and the remote is better because it has a proper little keyboard on it :-)
TBH the experience is so positive I don’t understand why anyone would want to use the smart features of a modern TV when they could be doing this instead.
After my first pihole setup (I hate SD cards with a passion now), I saw what my “smartTV” was doing and I pulled it off the internet. The TV really did not like being off of the internet but I found ways around that. I have an Apple TV as my smart stuff.
I have 2 pi5’s with NVMe drives and a pi4 booting off of an external NVMe drive. Last night I thought about figuring out a way to download the youtube videos and setting up a jellyfin sever. Or breaking and getting using Firefox and attaching one of my pi5’s to the TV and just doing it that way.
I looked at smaller things like the Pi and in the end decided I had more flexibility by just having a little PC and bunging Linux on it.
I just got a new smart TV, but it’s never going on the internet, lol
When my smart TV was attached to the internet, because a friend helped me get it into my place she was fairly insistent on setting it up to the internet, I had no idea how much data it was sending places. I set up my first go at a pi-hole and say that a good majority of the internet signals coming and going from my place was from the TV.
Smart TV’s are not cool, I bought it to display video not spy on me and sell ads to me. I have since ditched that email address it’s only used for YouTube now. I would ditch the email entirely if the Google did not own YouTube. It breaks my buy Canadian heart that I am stuck using YouTube and Reddit, I am however trying to cut down on the groups and channels I subscribe to or pay attention to.
Magic Youtube is a Chrome addon I use to block youtube adds (in addition to other features). Available anywhere you use chrome, but I think there’s also a firefox version.
I’m happy for Rachel as The National Observer is such a massive upgrade.
