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Adblocker for TV - AdGuard is available for Android TV: here is how it works (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] bigb 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you're going through all that work, try an alternate launcher.

[+] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not the guy you asked, but I use Projectivy Launcher. It's not FOSS, but it does a decent job of putting a suggestions/up next feed on the homescreen and is fairly customizable.

[–] 4lan 2 points 9 months ago

I just got this and it is amazing I love that you can create 'channels' for your apps

being able to select from my subscriptions via SmartTube, or my media categories in Jellyfin, or whatever I want!

The original homescreen was cluttered with essentially advertisements, this is way cleaner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is also what I use. I like it quite a bit

[–] bigb 1 points 9 months ago

For FOSS it's Flauncher for me. I haven't tried any others, I like Flauncher because i could put big simple app icons on the screen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this doesn't seem to provide anything a better launcher + Pi-hole don't already provide. At least on mobile, the ad blockers help when I'm away from home and not going through the Pi-hole for DNS queries...but my tv doesn't leave the house much.

[–] hi_its_me 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An option for you. Setup a WireGuard server on your network and use the WireGuard mobile app to use that VPN connection when not connected to your home WiFi. Then you’re always using the internet through your pihole. That’s how I have mine setup and it works well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use Tailscale when the need arises, but I honestly don't see ads on my phone very often even without the Pi-hole between good browsers, revanced, and not playing shitty mobile games.

I was mostly just questioning the usefulness of AdGuard on a tv box. It seems to have a pretty narrow scope, which could be better addressed through other means (better in that DNS-based blocking helps the entire network, not just the tv).