What else would you use to watch? I used to have my TV offline and watch through a Firestick and airplay, but now the Firestick is worse than the TV apps. I need a new media streamer, but even Roku has enshittified. At this point my only hope is Apple but Apple TV hasn’t been updated in three years
…. Or I might just give up, since Netflix decided my TV is not part of my household so I need a 2fa every time I want to watch.
You’re asking the wrong person. I mostly watch stuff on a Windows tablet. I’m hardly your prototypical media consumer.
But when I do want to watch something on a nice screen it’s an LG or Samsung TV where I haven’t logged in and turned on as many privacy settings as possible. Mostly I use a local Plex server, and I do have a Windows PC hooked up to a TV as a media center and gaming device.
IMO there isn’t a “good experience silver bullet” thing out there. You’re navigating like three layers of advertising datamining on all options, including straight-up live broadcast TV. At this point it’s about mitigation. I should give a pihole a try and see what that does to the TVs. If I could at least kill the need to manually opt out of live TV cookies every time a family member tries to watch something that’d be a major win.
What else would you use to watch? I used to have my TV offline and watch through a Firestick and airplay, but now the Firestick is worse than the TV apps. I need a new media streamer, but even Roku has enshittified. At this point my only hope is Apple but Apple TV hasn’t been updated in three years
…. Or I might just give up, since Netflix decided my TV is not part of my household so I need a 2fa every time I want to watch.
Still very happy with the shield pro. Old as sin but does everything.
Wow, even has Apple TV+, which the Fire Stick doesn’t. Fairly expensive but the description looks hood
Still has an active hacking community for it, you can do quite a lot with it if you want. Definitely put a non oem loader on it.
You’re asking the wrong person. I mostly watch stuff on a Windows tablet. I’m hardly your prototypical media consumer.
But when I do want to watch something on a nice screen it’s an LG or Samsung TV where I haven’t logged in and turned on as many privacy settings as possible. Mostly I use a local Plex server, and I do have a Windows PC hooked up to a TV as a media center and gaming device.
IMO there isn’t a “good experience silver bullet” thing out there. You’re navigating like three layers of advertising datamining on all options, including straight-up live broadcast TV. At this point it’s about mitigation. I should give a pihole a try and see what that does to the TVs. If I could at least kill the need to manually opt out of live TV cookies every time a family member tries to watch something that’d be a major win.