im looking to get an appletv, cause its basically the most privacy-friendly streaming box you can get (unless you make a linux box of course), but im not sure if you can use something like smarttube on an appletv. I can barely watch youtube with the ads its insane. I found three apps on github but idk if they’re any good so here they are: SmartTube-IOS(https://github.com/say4n/SmartTube-iOS), yattee(https://github.com/yattee/yattee) and Unwatched(https://github.com/fer0n/Unwatched)
thank guy
I’m running pinchflat https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
AFAIK there’s no way, and the VPNs you can get don’t block YouTube ads, even if you pay them.
I also have a MacBook, so I just AirPlay to the TV (could also connect HDMI to Thunderbolt) and then do it in the browser. Of course the go-to is usually Firefox+uBlock Origin, but I use Safari+Wipr2 (not free; I paid $5 because it also works on iOS… sadly not tvOS).
Apple’s been rumoured to drop a new ATV box for a couple years now. According to MacRumors, it’s been coming out next week for at least the past year. I suppose, one of these days, they’ll be right.
If I didn’t already have one, I’d look into the lowest-powered Linux box I could connect to HDMI with 4K output for the TV, run Firefox+uBlock Origin on it, and get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo unit, and that would be that. Some paid streamers wouldn’t work well on it, but it would run Plex or Jellyfin just fine.
I don’t know if this helps you but I use yt-dlp to download from my favorite channels. Then I stream them from jellyfin to my appletv.
No ads and yt-dlp can use sponsor block to get rid of that part of the video automatically.
I run MeTube on my NAS, which downloads to a folder that is hosted by my media server. Then I watch those downloaded videos through Infuse, along with my other media.
I use unwatched on my atv, it never load ads, but sometimes YouTube try to break the video with black screen that says video unplayable or something, then you just play it natively from the app.
I am trying to avoid YouTube completely, so i don’t use unwatched alot.
I used to use Yattee on my AppleTV awhile back, but it stopped working when all the invidious instances started to have to implement blockers for all the scrappers. I think if you really want to watch YouTube on your TV without ads that Linux will probably be your best bet. Alternatively, you can connect your laptop and use FreeTube via HDMI, I do that occasionally. i don’t know about those other apps.
If you’re really bent on getting an AppleTV and you live near an Apple store, you can buy one, try it out for a fee data and return it if it’s not to your liking. I believe that Apple has a 14 day return window, but double check just to make sure.
