I wouldn’t use a package that does that because it breaks the security of proton, but tbh it’s email who cares.

As far as that package in particular who can say.

From a more 10,000 foot perspective: if you have to ask on a public forum if an application you give access to your secure email account so it can copy and paste contacts into your os address book is safe it’s probably worthwhile to figure out what you’re trying to do and under what constraints.

In that case plan on doing your research into what specific insane unofficial smarttube app you want to use.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that if they had a lockable bootloader or sandbox they’d be saying so.

Would be nice to be wrong though…

Building and loading your own apps for tvOS isn’t hard but the instructions are always written for Xcode in its native environment (macos, formerly osx of xcode fame). You may have no problem setting up a vm for that, already have some device that runs macos natively or run into an infinite amount of roadblocks that you can’t surpass.

In the last case be careful what insane unofficial smarttube app you settle on.

You could also, and I wasn’t able to come up with a better way to put this because I’m not very smart so apologies if it seems like an attack, not watch youtube on the tv.

Back in the hexbear days I thought maybe the fediverse should abandon the “Reddit model” of threaded discussion with voting.

The problem wasn’t just the moderation or people in charge, it was the structure of the system.

You have to take some extra steps, it’s not just “click button -> success”, but it’s not too hard.

Perhaps you’re the target audience for the many unofficial smarttube apps in the tvOS store.

Yeah, if your concern is privacy and security I wouldn’t switch to nym over mullvad. Mixnets have many more points of trust to establish or for an attacker, to undermine.

There are specific times when a person might choose a mixnet but those are relatively low stakes situations such as “I might go to several websites all using the same cdn at a time when I’m the only person using my particular vpn proxy and that cdn could associate my browsing habits between the various sites”, like in the video, but it’s not what anyone should be choosing when they’re imagining a powerful agency kicking in the door of their vpn proxy provider and trying to force them to install a tracking system.

Also the situation wherein your choose a mixnet over something else are mitigated by clearing your cookies and closing your browser, using container tabs, etc.

Wait…

You got banned because you were spamming Reddit posts and now you want to upload video?

E: lol yeah that’s what’s happening here.

im using a chromecast right now and i want a similar experience to that, just more privacy friendly

If they had asked for a project I would have given different input. Which would have also not been Linux.

Nothing is similar to mullvad.

I would not switch to nym from mullvad without a very good reason and understanding of how to mitigate differences.

What are you trying to accomplish by switching?

Depends on your definition of worse.

On the one hand you’re 100% being used as a proxy for illegal activities that could get the cops sent to your door looking to do a search for csam and the defenses of equipment on your network are being probed and either directly exploited or catalogued and sold to the highest bidder. Cameras and microphones on compromised equipment are activated and used periodically to perform surveillance and monitoring and there is at least one documented example of someone being blackmailed as part of a pig butchering scam because of that.

On the other hand Google wants to sell your information to advertisers and apple wants to use it to advertise directly to you.

So it’s kinda six or one half dozen of the other.

Not really, you’re just part of a residential proxy network and all the information that can be discerned about your network and the devices connected to it is being collected by the people who run that residential proxy network.

There are a bunch of tvos smart tube apps in the store for free but I’d just build the client on github and load it.

Even on the most locked down device the qos involved in streaming gives enough information to track you. If your goal is to block ads that’s no problem but just bear in mind the feed isn’t one way, your device communicates back to the source to negotiate bitrates and buffers and that’s enough to do some very accurate measurements especially with a side channel of normal https communication in the mix which they all have.

It sounds like you just want to block ads and there’s nothing wrong with that, I just don’t want to lead you into thinking you’re actually in any way private when streaming. Every service is actively collecting as much information as they can in the process of sending you video.

Anyway don’t read any of that just try out the appletv and if you end up not liking it you can easily sell it to someone for 90% of what you paid.

It’s appletv unless you’re willing to use a custom sbc with a taped together third party android version.

I don’t recommend the latter option because it fucking sucks and you seem like a psycho to others who may use it or watch stuff with you.

You can just host jellyfin from your pc (or a server in your closet) if you wanna get away from streaming services and it works good with either option.

I want to be clear as day that you cannot get a privacy friendly experience from any Android streaming device unless you load it yourself and make sure it’s something like the lineageos Android tv stuff linked by another user.

It’s probably worth it for you to put into words what you’re trying to accomplish, being as clear and explicit as possible.

Mullvad with doh. You’re fine.

E: what device needs a third party firewall?

Identifying lost or unknown trackers would fulfill this persons needs in my experience.

It wouldn’t locate the lost keys across the street unless they were using an apple device though.

The official Android support from apple is only through the “tracker detect” app for finding them.

That’s a tall order. Wards by their very definition have given up a lot of agency required to understand and maintain privacy.

Generally the person who would do this for you is your caregiver. They are, from a legal perspective, the person responsible for it.

The usual solution is airtags. There’s Android support for them now so there’s no real reason to pick something else.

Llms have been great for finding and fixing bugs and cranking out code, but the systems that allow for generation of code at a direct cost of dollars as opposed to the overhead of managing and employing programmers aren’t under the intense pressure to not redo old work and so are disincentivized from either creating or contributing to open source projects.