I recently went down the rabbithole of trying to find live sports streaming through IPTV and gave up on it for now.

Not sure if you’ve already seen rentry’s list of free IPTV sources, but that might help a little.

The problem with paid IPTV providers is that if they’re easy to find, they’re easy to take down — so anything you can find through a search is probably a scam or will be short-lived.

Your best bet is forums like TechKings, where users conduct subscription sales over DMs. I didn’t really want to bother with all of that, but your might be motivated enough to! Sounds like the most common advice is to only subscribe month by month to services to avoid losing money if the provider shuts down or ends up being a scam.

Personally I just do PlutoTV plus whatever free/sketchy channels I can find. I haven't heard of many providers but they all seem fairly suspect. If I were more into sports or a similar niche, then I might be looking harder. But I'm good with "Pluto Plus" for now.

I had never heard of Dispatcharr...would ISPs take issue with it? In other words, do I need to call up Gluetun?

I recently started using tvplans.org after using thetvapp.to for a bit and have no regrets.

Highly suggest the Amazon Firestick app TiVi Mate and IPTV Expert for Apple devices.