For everyone without a AdGuard subscription who wants to watch YouTube without ads and without integrated sponsor bullshit on the TV I’d recommend SmartTube. Don’t forget to remap your YouTube button on the chromecast remote to SmartTube.
I’m paying YouTube Premium but still use SmartTube on the TV because of its integrated Sponsorblock.
SmartTube is amazing.
Smarttube is amazing…my wife thought I was nuts when I deleted YouTube.
the sponsor-block feature is so dang nice if you watch a lot of podcasts. Sometimes it’s like 30 min of ad-reads total
If you’re going through all that work, try an alternate launcher.
What launcher do you recommend? I’ve been using Flauncher as it’s the only decent FOSS one I’ve found, but it’s pretty barebones.
Not the guy you asked, but I use Projectivy Launcher. It’s not FOSS, but it does a decent job of putting a suggestions/up next feed on the homescreen and is fairly customizable.
I just got this and it is amazing I love that you can create ‘channels’ for your apps
being able to select from my subscriptions via SmartTube, or my media categories in Jellyfin, or whatever I want!
The original homescreen was cluttered with essentially advertisements, this is way cleaner
For FOSS it’s Flauncher for me. I haven’t tried any others, I like Flauncher because i could put big simple app icons on the screen.
Yeah, this doesn’t seem to provide anything a better launcher + Pi-hole don’t already provide. At least on mobile, the ad blockers help when I’m away from home and not going through the Pi-hole for DNS queries…but my tv doesn’t leave the house much.
Another option is to use
adbto change the DNS to any adblocking DNS of your choice. Here’s how: https://yamen.dev/configuring-private-dns-on-android-tvIIRC that doesn’t help YouTube since the ads are served from the same servers as the streaming content.
That’s right, YouTube ads will not be blocked using this method.
It won’t Adblock anything inside apps, just like on phones … there is no magic.
It blocks ads on phones inside apps if you use DNS ad blocking.
I love how easy using a private DNS is on android.
YouTube app is not possible to block ads . You need to access YouTube with a mobile internet browser that support plugins . Like Firefox in android and safari in iOS .
Yes, but that’s a special case and related to how the ads are served from the same servers as video content.
AdGuard will block banners, splash screens etc in apps as any other DNS service and not as stated generally not work in apps.
There are AdBlock options for Android that can work on apps. Generally you need to route all internet traffic via the AdBlock app which requires root, a faux-VPN, or a PiHole type solution.
It can usually only do host-level blocking but that’s generally enough.
Not for apps like YouTube .
Yeah, YT’s current anti-adblock crusade means you need a proper ad blocker built into the browser or a third party client.
This
So why would I use it over Firefox + uBlock?
How often are you using Firefox on your TV?
Can someone recommend me a cheap 1080p android tv with app sideloading available? I’ve been looking for options in europe but they seem to cost 60€+
Edit: android tv DONGLE, not a whole tv
Walmart’s Onn 4k Android TV box is perfect IMO. Costs $20
You can’t game on it, but I never had one issue streaming video
I’m looking exactly for one such thing, but in europe. We don’t have walmarts and shipping costs are too high
You should also specify the size you’re looking for, not much help without it.
I’m sorry, what do you mean by size?
The physical size.
Shit my bad, I meant an android tv dongle with remote, not a whole tv
Tell me again how much better Android is than everyone else? I’m just not seeing it.
cant tell if this is sarcasm…
Android TV has freed me from watching ads at all, ever.
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