Good morning nostr, i'm sipping my coffee and thinking about the day ahead. I feel a little less icky this morning, because yesterday i abandoned the last vestiges of google in my life. There was a time when i used gmail, google docs, a chromebook (gasp), and slowly i have replaced all that, Except YouTube TV. But yesterday we were unable to watch it, and it was trying to force me to sign in with google, and it had to be on my phone. Well i tried to get around it, and after an hour i had enough, and cancelled YouTubeTV. We started thinking about it, and really the only thing we watched on it were local stations (football) and a couple of shows. I've tried a digital antenna for local channels, but for us the nearest station is about 100 miles away, so a no go. Anyway, maybe we'll just use a laptop for that. If yall know of a cheap streaming service for local channels let me know. Anyway, i'm hoping i never have to sign in to google for anything again. After not using it for so long, i had forgotten how invasive and coersive google is. 
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GM Maria 🌞
Good morning and Good for you for dropping the google!
NewPipe app and Invidious.io allow you to watch YouTube content and access some of the features (eg playlists) without logging into the spyware or giving them your info.
I am not sure about local channels but maybe going directly to their website for a stream.
Let’s #AskNostr if anyone knows the best way to stream local channels
You could try using an outdoor mast antenna with a signal booster/amplifier, or perhaps SlingTV... don't they carry local channels on streaming?
https://cordcuttingreport.com/free-streaming-services-with-local-channels/
I found this, but just be mindful of the privacy aspects of some of these “free” services
NewPipe 🤠🤙
Anyone have a good solution for local channel TV?
Public radio is cool 88.5 maybe?
GrapheneOS fixes this...
Seriously Maria--time to switch--if you've dropped the rest of Google, this last step will amaze you with the possibilities.
Oh--and that old Chromebook can be loaded with LInux - you'll need to flash a new bios, but using one now 😃 )
I actually have a graphene phone and love it. We were using my husbands phone to sign in to google. I think thats why it felt so invasive to me, i had not tried signing in for so long.
I keep an old phone (no SIM) on hand and use that when I need to sign into Google--
All permissions are turned off (e.g. location) it never leaves the house, and every time I pick it up I know I'm being tracked (so I only use it for certain things--games mostly).
Graphene for everything else 😃 and a great use for an old phone.
Good idea.
Even though you can sandbox Google Play Services on Graphene, I still prefer keeping all that stuff off my phone.
If Google wants to track the apps on that old phone, they're welcome to that information. Nothing else goes on that phone.
(For TV, we do have Amazon Prime - comes with Prime free shipping, so we use that--but even then we're getting tracked and profiled...yet that suffices for our TV).
And of course Amazon Sidewalk is not enabled...still, it's our only real concession to being actively tracked...can't really avoid Amazon.
Focusing shows the noise and the signal
GM Maria 🤠🤙
There are pretty much infinite TV station on Plex, for free.
I didn't even mean to use it for that... I use plex on my local NAS storage device to give my video files a nice netflix-like interface. One of the tabs there is called "Plex TV" and it never even asks you to pay for anything, but wow there are more channels there than any cable package ever offered!
Enjoy!
