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best privacy respecting tv/streaming box?? (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

my brother actually wants an apple tv and/or my family's tv needs a tv box just in general so that could work

and i don't really care that streaming serviced collect my data (i mean i would like them to not but im "fine" with it)

i thought that sideloading apps like smarttube on apple tvs was pretty hard, and thats mainly why i didn't really want one, but if i can use something like smarttube then maybe ill give it a try

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    You have to take some extra steps, it’s not just “click button -> success”, but it’s not too hard.

    Perhaps you’re the target audience for the many unofficial smarttube apps in the tvOS store.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    im fine with sideloading and stuff, i use linux (arch btw (endeavouros but i want to larp as an arch user)) ykykykykykykykykykyukykykykykykyklykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykyykykykykykyukykykyykykykykykykykykykykyuklykykiykykykykykyk

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Building and loading your own apps for tvOS isn’t hard but the instructions are always written for Xcode in its native environment (macos, formerly osx of xcode fame). You may have no problem setting up a vm for that, already have some device that runs macos natively or run into an infinite amount of roadblocks that you can’t surpass.

    In the last case be careful what insane unofficial smarttube app you settle on.

    You could also, and I wasn’t able to come up with a better way to put this because I’m not very smart so apologies if it seems like an attack, not watch youtube on the tv.

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