> I'm looking forward to reading other HN users complaining about always-on ads that are easily blocked with an ad-blocker, and then when I ask them why they don't use an ad-blocker, they give me a lecture about how it's evil and immoral to block ads.
Turns out: you don't use an ad-blocker either. Next time, just tell people to use a different app, and tell them which one you use. Most folks know about that option. That option isn't particularly challenging or hard or immoral or objectionable in any way: if it's on the play store, it's sanctioned by Google.
But installing an ad-blocker is hard. I don't know of any that exist that work for TVs (not just "the youtube Android app"). Do you?
(Because the only way I know how to block ads on a TV is to still not "install an ad-blocker" but to connect the TV to the internet through a proxy that kills off all named and bare IP requests for known ad servers, like a pi-hole. Which is well beyond what many people care to bother with for their TV)
>That option isn't particularly challenging or hard or immoral or objectionable in any way: if it's on the play store, it's sanctioned by Google.
You seem to be missing something here. Alternative YouTube viewing clients are NOT on the Google Play store, and Google hates them. You have to install them from APKs or alternative stores. For my Android TV, I had to install SmartTube from an APK using a separate "downloader" app that I had to point to the project's Gitlab/hub page. Not too hard for an IT person, but I wouldn't expect a non-technical person to do this. Installing uBO on Firefox/Chrome is vastly easier.
>I don't know of any that exist that work for TVs (not just "the youtube Android app"). Do you?
No, just like I don't know any non-Google YouTube viewer apps available on the Play store.
> I'm looking forward to reading other HN users complaining about always-on ads that are easily blocked with an ad-blocker, and then when I ask them why they don't use an ad-blocker, they give me a lecture about how it's evil and immoral to block ads.
Turns out: you don't use an ad-blocker either. Next time, just tell people to use a different app, and tell them which one you use. Most folks know about that option. That option isn't particularly challenging or hard or immoral or objectionable in any way: if it's on the play store, it's sanctioned by Google.
But installing an ad-blocker is hard. I don't know of any that exist that work for TVs (not just "the youtube Android app"). Do you?
(Because the only way I know how to block ads on a TV is to still not "install an ad-blocker" but to connect the TV to the internet through a proxy that kills off all named and bare IP requests for known ad servers, like a pi-hole. Which is well beyond what many people care to bother with for their TV)