| Hulu is a mixed bag, that's not going to stop with Pi-Hole. If you're using the "live tv" on versions of the app that support it, you will see ads, you may see replacement ads on "recorded" tv as well, which are often replaced in blocks by hulu's injected ads. Some can be skipped, others can not. If you have "live tv" you may lose access to those shows you would have access to for the regular streaming, still available on platforms not supported by the current apps with live tv (android tv in particular). If you have streaming only, there are two tiers for that as well. The lower tier has ads. The higher "ad free" tier still has some (fewer) ads on some networks. Hulu also has third party network options and "value add" options, which is annoying as well. I mention all of this, because my GF is a reality tv junkie and the only reason I even have Hulu + TV at all... I've gone back to my seedbox, nas and kodi. |
I use a good digital tuner (HDHomeRun) hooked up to my rusty old 1950's rooftop antenna usually using KODI as front end, it's awesome and satisfies my live TV need which is very minimal. I couple that with real-debrid which offers plentiful and reliable supply of cached 4K (actually high bit rate) torrents and it's a much better experience than any of the alternative, crappy, ad-laiden streaming services I've paid for. Once KODI has seamlessly integrated voice control it will be in a league of it's own. I'm not sure how services like real-debrid can work out such great licensing terms to allow their offer of such affordable, ad-free and limitless content catalogs but I assume it's a very technical, economy-of- built-for-scale redundant kubermnetes based on-demand cloud container architecture benifit that wouldn't interest me anyways so I'm not even gonna try and understand it ;-)