Yeah, Chromecasts are much better than Fire TV’s, due to the more control you have over them and how easy it is change the launcher vs. Amazon actively preventing it. Basically same price and budget as well. Plus Google running a newer version of Android in general vs. Amazon’s, etc. Chromecasts are probably lesser of the two evils imo.

Pretty much unfortunately. The good thing is its trivially easy to change launchers on the NVIDIA Shield or Google TV devices, plus you can even go a step forward and debloat them entirely with ADB. Amazon’s really the only manufacturer I’d say that forces home screen ads with no choice around it, since they actively prevent changing launchers and such. But Apple is probably the only one out of the box with no advertising.

If you have the money, I’d go for an NVIDIA Shield, or maybe an Apple TV. Well worth the money.

Otherwise, for budget, you could get a Chromecast, which gives you more control over it and has generally less garbage than the Fire TVs do for instance, since you can easily change its launcher and debloat with ADB.

You can easily change launchers on the Shield and remove all of Google’s nonsense through ADB as well though, unlike Amazon who locks down the OS very tight. Plus like another commenter said, you can just flat out install LineageOS and you’re good.

I like Clock You.

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What shell would you recommend? 🤔

Cloudflare typically provides DDOS protection to websites, as well as CAPTCHAs and preventing bots from accessing sites, and can speed up connections through use of their CDN, among other things they offer.

People mostly dislike Cloudflare to my understanding because at the end of the day, they’re a giant US big tech company with a pretty massive amount of centralized control over the internet. I personally avoid them where possible, and know a lot of others wish to as well due to it.

Kagi is so good, I just wish they’d lower the price…

Interested in more info about Brave Search. How is their claim of having an own index “doubtful”, and how do they have “extreme” censorship?

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Yep, they’re horrible. I always disable internet on them, uninstall any apps I can, and generally do what I can to avoid using the built-in smart TV, but I shouldn’t have to do this, its unfortunate and sucks to deal with. They just take advantage of consumers who don’t know better, wish the TV market wasn’t like this. :/

It will make your connection more private and secure, but I don’t think its a major improvement or worth using for most people due to the downsides.

Is this the part where I act surprised?

Are they begging for another antitrust?

selling data

When has Brave ever sold data? I’ve seen other people claim this here on Lemmy too and I don’t understand where it’s coming from, I know Brave has had controversies but they’ve never sold user data, I’d love to see at least a shred of evidence for this claim, it’s just FUD.

This list has so many weird and obsolete recommendations, looks like its being refined and improved according to this, so until that’s finished, I’d take it with a heavy grain of salt.

Best way to fight against things like this is with your wallet. Stop buying and supporting games with Denuvo or any other similar DRM.

Please never do this! Read this thread from the developer of uBlock Origin. Using multiple content blockers together like this can and will cause issues, as well as will increase fingerprinting, etc, and there’s no gain or benefit at all from doing so.

I would disable Brave’s built-in ad/tracker blocking (leave the rest of the Shields’ functionality enabled), and would solely use uBlock Origin, and remove the other extensions. (You could even just stick to Brave’s built in ad/tracker blocking if you want to, but I just prefer uBlock Origin for its advanced features and compatibility)

As far as Decentraleyes goes, its essentially abandoned. You can use LocalCDN instead if you wish to do so, though its privacy benefits are debated. I mainly use it since I use uBlock Origin in Hard mode (which it complements uBo very nicely in both Medium or Hard Mode), and for the performance boost it gives, but its up to you. Ghostery and DDG Essentials should definitely be removed. (While DDG Essentials isn’t only content blocking, its other features are also just completely redundant and unnecessary with Brave)

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