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Youtube has ads?
When I have to visit it sans adblocker it is like a dumpster fire.
Yeah, if Google ever effectively blocks/bypasses my ad blocker, I'll stop watching. They charge too much for premium for how much I watch, and I'd rather go without than deal with all those ads.
the only way they do is, do what twitch does, but its prohibitively expensive to do that. something about putting the ad inside the video coding?
I block ads on Twitch too.
On my tv, yes :(
Try SmartTube Next
What brand?
I recently encountered tizenbrew.
So worth installing
Do you have the option to install Android apps onto your TV? Or if it has another OS with the option?
I do! I'm actually using an NVidia Shield. Which runs android TV
I tried last year to install a recommended one but it required that I download a third-party APK. And I would have to jump through a meant hoops to be able to install it on this device when I was poking around then. If it's not on the Play store, apparently it's rather difficult to install?
You're right in that you'd have to install an APK, from outside of the Play Store, however if you're aware of the right sources of the right apps your security should be fine (you can disable the ability to install apps from unknown sources after you've got the YouTube alternative app, without affecting it, if you're worried about that).
There are a few steps, which are usually straight forward, listed here: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
If you follow that link it should have further links for an installation tutorial (they also link a YouTube tutorial to make things easier).
If you do go down that route, it's a much more pleasant experience imho. No ads, Sponsorblock for in-video ad segments, complete control over quality of video, audio, options to manually force specific codecs, etc.