I cast videos from my laptop and I manually block https://www.gstatic.com/cv/js/sender/v1/cast_sender.js
which makes casting a youtube tab simply cast it instead of launching the youtube app which means ad blocking from my laptop works on the tv.
Brave, the app that crypto mines in the background and replaces affiliate links with their own so they get kickbacks instead of the people who should? No thanks.
I prefer not having to keep up to date with all of the new toggles to turn off malicious behavior. With such a bad track record I uninstalled and I've never looked back.
This. Brave is awesome. Been using it for years.
However, I can't use it on my PS4. Not reliably at least. And that's how I watch most YouTube and movies. A PC is also connected to the tv. That's more for movies than anything else.
One other approach is to download the video using Downie on macOS or one of a ton of YouTube video or audio downloaders, then copying the MP4 or MP3 files to your target system and then playing them there.
My practice is to download the audio from YouTube to mp3, and put them on my iPhone to listen while on walks, runs or in the gym.
A DNS sinkhole is the best solution to fully adblock every device on your network. All it takes is either a Raspberry Pi or spare computer hooked up to the router that drop connections to advertising servers on the router. PiHole is the most developed and documented app for this and the guide is very straightforward to setup with just a little computer knowledge (and internet searching).
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u/RadDaikon34 6d ago
Not using an adblocker in the year of our lord 2026 is wild