I don’t know wheather this is an option for you, but there is also a way to use YouTube without using it. There is a project called Invidious. Like in the lemmy universe, there are multiple instances. One of them is https://yewtu.be
You can use it as a website, but it’s also a progressive webapp. That means, you can go to the website and install it as an app via the browser options. This works on most devices, but I don’t you whether your TV is one of them…
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If you have a smart tv or nvidia shield that can sideload apps, I recommend SmartTube
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
Thank you. It’s a really old smart TV though and it just has a handful of pre-selected apps you can install.
A pihole then?my bad, it can’t.I have pihole setup and it doesn’t seem to block YouTube ads on my mibox. Is there an entry I need to add to block them?
Yeah, you are not the only one with that problem…
I don’t know wheather this is an option for you, but there is also a way to use YouTube without using it. There is a project called Invidious. Like in the lemmy universe, there are multiple instances. One of them is https://yewtu.be
You can use it as a website, but it’s also a progressive webapp. That means, you can go to the website and install it as an app via the browser options. This works on most devices, but I don’t you whether your TV is one of them…
You can side load on Roku too? Literally tried googling this and every thread was like “not possible”