Over the past 2 years I've been using an old laptop hooked up to my TV and a Bluetooth keyboard/trackpad combo. No ads on anything ever. Just install brave or firefox/ublock or whatever you prefer. You don't have to deal with smart TVs or streaming boxes. No side loading apps or anything. Watching shows, movies and videos used to be so irritating when I used a PS5 to stream all my content. Now everything is so seamless and unobtrusive.
A lot of people have an old laptop or desktop PC laying around that's just collecting dust. It doesn't have to be powerful, everything you do will be done in a web browser with minimal tabs. You also have unlimited access to everything and won't just be limited to the streaming services supported by your platform. Even if you don't have old hardware laying around, take a look at mini PCs. You can find decent enough ones for just a few hundred. More expensive than streaming boxes but well worth it.
If anyone is interested in doing this please ask any questions. If anyone here has done this and has anything to add to what I said please contribute.
Edit: To add to this, it doesn't even have to be a Windows PC. MacOS and Linux should work as well. To my knowledge this can even be done with a Chromebook as long as it has video out and it's one of the models that has the Google Play store on it, so you can get brave.
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