YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
    91·
    6 hours ago

    While cstom ROMs of Android TV do exist, Samsung does not want you to truly own your device and has locked it down. The only option I see is to use your TV as a dumb TV: hook up any PC to your TV’s HDMI ports (I use a Raspi 5 running Ubuntu for that). The PC gives you full control over what you want to install, which may include an adblocker in the browser or free YouTube frontends such as FreeTube.

      • mghackerlady@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        the only reason I know of that god forsaken platform is because it uses the woefully underrated EFL gui toolkit

    • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Frustrating but predictable by Samsung thanks.

      I do have a steam deck connected so I can look at using that to run a browser