Rather big caveat IMO. As a side note, your domain doesn't seem to have an AAAA record (which [.]localhost binds to by default on most of my machines, at least).
Very curious if there's a way to use the accessibility features of Android TV to auto-mute when the ads appear. It's not worth it to pay for anything more than the lowest price plan here.
I've looked multiple times for something like this that I could load onto my nvidia shield, but nothing seems to exist.
There is a tool available for chromecast that works very well, but my ideal solution would be an app I can load onto the shield that auto-mutes during ads and un-mutes when the ads are finished.
If I didn't already have my hands full with side projects, I'd dig into this on my own time.
Can you point me to that chromecast tool or tell how it worked?
I'm in the process of releasing a video player with adblocker for live IPTV on android that can definitely auto-mute the whole adbreak for you if you watch the stream in the player (see my previous comment for link).
But if you are suggesting a system-wide mute triggered by a dormant app as another live broadcast plays in some official app then that's easier in some respects and harder in others because people need to trust the data is accurate. Once we have enough users sharing accurate adbreak data (powered by accurate software with human corrections) we can offer a system-wide mute for ads in any other app playing those known broadcasts.
I agree even just an auto mute functionality would go a long way.
People used to hack on this stuff decades ago. I suspect it's not as common now because for those who care (said hackers) they already cobble together some ad blockers and pi-holes. But ad delivery has stained so much daily life now they've sweetened the pot for a new generation of, not ad blockers, but... video shields?
I might have talked myself into tinkering on this. Curious what tools HN recommends.
My gut says there are sharks circling this issue waiting to pounce once this storm passes.
They want to see it gutted so they can strip the carcass to the bone and try to extract rent from half the internet.
Enshittification comes for everything, eventually.
I can't find a way to strip these out, so I am considering another approach. Is there an alternative frontend for consuming Prime Video?
If not, how hard would it be to interact with the hdmi stream and implement an auto-mute feature? I've been considering ways to remove these annoyances and since they don't provide a convenient way for smart people they're justifying the effort to a more complicated approach.
These companies need to leave some low-hanging fruit or they're going to be incentivizing a whole host of developers who are more motivated to solve this problem than anyone they could possibly hire internally.
I have this theory I cannot prove that Microsoft has had an existential level security breach, something like a full access breach to all of Azure, but it is covered up in a "too big to fail" type manner.
I have absolutely no way to prove this gut feeling.
But there are also things it can't do. For example connectors support posting messages to private channels. Power Automate only supports this if the message is posted on behalf of the workflow creator. Basically the persons name will always show up in the posted message. Not great for alerts and similar
