An Xbox/PlayStation controller is cheap and high quality.

You don't necessarily have to flash a custom firmware. Rooting the TV and killing the ad processes is usually sufficient.

Indeed, many of these TVs serve ads by default on their screensavers and home screens.

The experience with this is so much better. Hacking most Tuya based devices has become extremely easy when you use https://docs.libretiny.eu/ Replacing MyQ with ratgdo was one of the best IoT decisions I have ever made.

The consent screens say that they "may continue running in the background after you close the app".

I am struggling to see how exactly this is even considered piracy. Nobody was going to stream music in low quality off a slow AA server anyway. It's archival.

If you spoof user agent, you will get more captchas because it won't match their other fingerprinting.

You also get more captchas because you are on Linux, I see the Cloudflare one on my computer everytime.

Used to be worse. Something happened in the last year and I'm seeing way way less random captchas for regular use from a residential IP. In '22-'24 it used to be extremely common, now it's an event when it happens. Also went from mint to plain ubuntu so that might have something to do with it?

It's a good thing too, because when I see the Cloudflare captcha I try it once and if that doesn't work then I just close the tab and add it to the list of non-functioning websites.

Cloudflare captcha = infinite loop of captchas (if it doesn't work on the first try). You can give up the moment that happens, because you will never get to the website itself.