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While cstom ROMs of Android TV do exist, Samsung does not want you to truly own your device and has locked it down. The only option I see is to use your TV as a dumb TV: hook up any PC to your TV's HDMI ports (I use a Raspi 5 running Ubuntu for that). The PC gives you full control over what you want to install, which may include an adblocker in the browser or free YouTube frontends such as FreeTube.
Many Samsung TVs use tizen, a Linux (non-Android) OS.
the only reason I know of that god forsaken platform is because it uses the woefully underrated EFL gui toolkit
Frustrating but predictable by Samsung thanks.
I do have a steam deck connected so I can look at using that to run a browser