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
There’s nothing that works as a simple YouTube client available. It’s my biggest sore spot with AppleTV. Apple locks down their app ecosystem and controls what makes it to the App Store.
Your best bet is to pick up an Android based streaming stick and side loading SmartTube onto it. Or pay for YouTube premium and use the official app on your AppleTV… (Shitty part of premium is you don’t see YouTube ads but there’s still no Sponsorblock so you still hit all that sponsored content.
Real shitty part about premium is that you have to give google money.
Idk what your privacy concerns are, but an Android stick is a much more open platform allowing you to install whatever and avoid all the Google stuff
Can you elaborate on this please? What’s an android stick?
Any plug-and-play Android TV device. This video has a good list of popular options, and following this guide will help reduce tracking.
I’d recommend creating a new Google account for setup, and then basically never using it again. Forward emails to a trusted address so it doesn’t auto-delete due to inactivity.
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.