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YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos (www.androidauthority.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Go to .com
Download iso
burn iso to usb stick (ventoy!)
install on pc
install ublock origin on firefox
done

also get a dumb tv ofc

edit: despite what people will say, ubuntu is still a rock solid distro. Alternatively, tumbleweed is brilliant too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't need a dumb TV, just switch the input. If your TV shows ads when connected to other inputs, yeet that TV out of your house today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Disconnect it from your network. Hard to serve ads if it can't contact the servers it is pulling them from.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Got a new TV a month ago. Fucked up and connected it to wireless, no idea what I was thinking. The only way to kill the connection (from the TV side) was a factory reset.

Windows is like that now. Once you enter an internet connection, you're screwed. No way out but a full reinstall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yup, working on setting up VLANs so I can keep the stuff I like (DLNA from the NAS) without the stuff I don't (ads).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

despite what people will say, ubuntu is still a rock solid distro. Alternatively, tumbleweed is brilliant too.

real!! just do the thing to disable snaps and it's perfect for anyone

EDIT: actually turns out snaps have gotten really good lately, ubuntu is still great!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I disagree. Native packages are still a bit more hassle-free, but snaps have gotten really good by now. And you can do some things that debs can't, like setting up an entire nextcloud installation with a four-words-long terminal command.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

huh, cool i didn't know that!! i havent heard much news of snaps except for when they first came out and were kinda shit lmao