[Andaith]

+ ghostery + pihole.

I like his suggestion of VPN via cloud. I might set up something with wireguard or tailscale for that.

I don't really use youtube, but my family does, so If anyone knows a way to get a better ui experience as a google tv app I'd be keen to hear it?

[iamacyborg]

Ghostery has a history of slightly problematic behaviour if you’re using it for privacy purposes.

[gruez]

>+ ghostery + pihole.

Both are superfluous if you have ublock, and pihole doesn't do anything for "native" ads like on twitch or youtube. The only benefit is that it blocks ads in apps that use third party ad SDKs.

[BLKNSLVR]

The article links to iSponsorBlockTV: https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

This doesn't change the UI as such, but it auto-mutes ads, and auto-skips once the skip option is available. It's a bit of a funny thing to setup, but it works great once setup.

[nickthegreek]

I use this via Home Assistant add on to skip ads on my apple tvs. Not as good as smarttube on nvidia shield, but best you can do on tvOS.

[Marsymars]

You can self-host Invidious and connect to it with yattee. (The UI is… not the best, but it’s generally functional, and better than ads.)

[BLKNSLVR]

There's also an app called Clipious on F-Droid that can connect to an Invidious instance.

I don't use it much since I started using the ReVanced patched YouTube app, but it used to work well enough for casual usage.

[vinni2]

Interesting could you share how to do this?

[nickthegreek]

https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV should get you started. In HA, it will available in the Settings > Add-ons / Add-on store. If you don't have home assistant, you can always run it on an rpi or in docker on a system on your network.

https://medium.com/@lumenyx/isponsorblocktv-on-a-raspberry-p...

[nickthegreek]

sideload SmartTube. I use it along with youtube premium to get a stellar experience.

[strangelove026]

what does ghostery do for you on top of ublock origin?