basically like a more privacy-friendly version of an android tv or apple tv, maybe a little bit more tinkering but not a lot. Like i know stuff like a raspberry pi with linux or something is an option, but that’s just a little bit too much for me imo. I mainly want to watch youtube (something like smarttube), jellyfin and some streaming services (netlix, prime etc.). I’m in the eu btw
thank
is there like some youtube app with an adblocker and sponsorblock (or just apps in general) that have a more tv friendly ui?
YouTube’s default UI isn’t too bad, in my experience, admittedly my tv is on the small side. I use slightly increased scaling to make things bigger. I use jellyfin and it’s default web interface works well on a tv, I haven’t tried the desktop app but it’s there. I used to use Kodi and while it did present a much more TV centered UI, getting each app working was a matter of managing different third party plugins that would break on me frequently. I used to use Freetube, which both blocks ads and includes sponsorblock. It lets you use YT mostly without an account, including subscriptions, playlists, watch history, etc. It takes some fiddling to import your subscriptions if you do use a YT account.
Using the mouse and keyboard on my phine via KDE connect is my default and works well for the less TV centric UI.