For anyone looking to dip their toes in the seven seas
Soulseek is a peer to peer media sharing network akin to limewire
yt-dlp i a command line Youtube video/audio downloader that does hq
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
KissAnime for streaming anime: https://kissanime.com.ru/
Similar sites that let you stream movies/shows/manga are aggregated on sites like TheBestCouchPotatoList:
You can find most free streaming sites through google/duckduckgo searches or pirating communities like the r/Piracy sub on reddit
Anything else can be found on torrent sites, which are usually aggregated on sites like TheProxyBay or r/piracy
Watched a YouTube video from my work laptop the other day, it averaged at 1 ad/minute over the course of a 10 minutes video. This is strictly unusable.
I was over at a friend’s house and they were watching YouTube stuff on their tv, and in a 30min video it had 4 different ad breaks with 2 ads per break.
So 16 ads for a 30min video
It made me not want to even watch what he was showing me, idk how they can live like that
The SmartTube app is the only way to watch Youtube on TV.
I have a little app I’ve made that serves only to offer me a Download From Clipboard button.
Using Freetube I copy the URL of what i want to watch, click the button, which then uses yt-dlp to download the video in an Apple TV-friendly format, which it then drops into my Jellyfin folder.
Its SO MUCH nicer than having to use the regular YouTube app, and has the added benefit of removing the temptation to mindlessly scroll, looking for something else to watch.
Personally, that’s why I don’t install an adblocker on my phone, to encourage myself to use my computer instead. Using YT without adblocker is excruciating