alt Hacker News+ 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?
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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.
>+ 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.
sideload SmartTube. I use it along with youtube premium to get a stellar experience.
what does ghostery do for you on top of ublock origin?
Ghostery has a history of slightly problematic behaviour if you’re using it for privacy purposes.