Best way to watch Youtube on TV - without ads

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I have a Samsung smart TV. Specifically, model UN50EH5300 if you care.

It came with an officially supported Youtube app. It connects to my personal Youtube account, where I “favorite” videos and they play on my TV.

It does all of this with zero ads playing. I also have a Roku, but it is from 2010 and is their very first model. It had an unofficial Youtube app that worked for awhile, but it stopped working a couple years ago. Also did NOT play ads. That old Roku Model #1 never got an official Youtube app. It’s more or less obsolete now.

Anyway, my current Youtube app on the Samsung TV give me this message about once a week. The app will not work after June 30.

I am up for buying a cheap device to get Youtube on my TV. I like my Smart TV, but I guess I have to accept that the Youtube app it has is being forced into obsolescence.

I don’t want to buy a device that can play Youtube and find out it plays ads every time I start a video. Is there a recommendation you all have for one that will work like my Samsung App did? Just played the videos ad-free?

2

Buy a Youtube Red subscription and you can get any device you want and it will be ad-free.

3

I use my Roku. The vast majority of ads can be skipped after 5 seconds with a button push. Once in a while you have to watch a 30 second ad you can’t skip. And sometimes, if the ad is a trailer for a movie I am interested in, I actually watch the ad.

4

Is it ad-free on the Chromecast? Why was the official app on my TV ad-free on my Samsung?

5

Probably your samsung app wasn’t set up to handle how youtube pushed the ads and so it just dropped them.

6

The app itself had been updated fairly frequently over the past couple years. I’m surprised it played ad-free so smoothly.