It’s not quite so simple as using an adblocker on YouTube.
You could find a service that provides this. I remember one being offered by this guy a few years ago until he got caught. He had a YouTube channel where he showed off his profits from doing this and that led to the cops looking into him and then arresting him. His whole business was just sharing his cable access with anyone for a subscription. Basically repackaging his cable access to multiple people.
You could download the old fashioned way with torrents or automate it using Plex/Jellyfin and other services like Sonarr. But the challenge is that you have to download everything you want to watch whereas YouTube TV and cable allow you to channel surf to see what’s currently being aired since it’s not just streaming on demand titles. There’s also the issue of having to wait for someone else to upload that episode to you and it coming after the episode has aired (fans of shows like Game of Thrones and the like do not want to possibly have tonight’s episode spoiled by friends/family or the internet so they just fork over the money to watch the episode when it airs).
I remember about a decade ago when Vuze (? Can’t remember the exact name, just a blue frog and the name starting with V) and TVu doing this where it relied on users to share their cable access over the internet. Both were free but not really reliable on a day to day basis or for the exact channel/showing you wanted to see. It was as if someone had recorded their screen at home and was streaming for the world to see, but the quality was very good. Drawback was that it was only whatever that person was watching. Couldn’t stream multiple channels at once.
But this is less common place nowadays because most people would rather have on demand titles akin to Netflix where you have total control over what is shown on your TV and the ability to pause and rewind or fast forward if desired. There’s also the fact that you’re not chained to only watch what some network has decided they want to air today, which often was a rerun or out of sequential order if they played multiple episodes in a row. As well as the ability to get up and do other things and not have to worry about something because you can’t rewind or pause. And then there’s ads shown on each network despite the fact you pay to have this “premium” service.
TL;DR: unlikely to find a high seas alternative in this day and age of on demand streaming to cable access/YouTube TV.
It’s not quite so simple as using an adblocker on YouTube.
You could find a service that provides this. I remember one being offered by this guy a few years ago until he got caught. He had a YouTube channel where he showed off his profits from doing this and that led to the cops looking into him and then arresting him. His whole business was just sharing his cable access with anyone for a subscription. Basically repackaging his cable access to multiple people.
You could download the old fashioned way with torrents or automate it using Plex/Jellyfin and other services like Sonarr. But the challenge is that you have to download everything you want to watch whereas YouTube TV and cable allow you to channel surf to see what’s currently being aired since it’s not just streaming on demand titles. There’s also the issue of having to wait for someone else to upload that episode to you and it coming after the episode has aired (fans of shows like Game of Thrones and the like do not want to possibly have tonight’s episode spoiled by friends/family or the internet so they just fork over the money to watch the episode when it airs).
I remember about a decade ago when Vuze (? Can’t remember the exact name, just a blue frog and the name starting with V) and TVu doing this where it relied on users to share their cable access over the internet. Both were free but not really reliable on a day to day basis or for the exact channel/showing you wanted to see. It was as if someone had recorded their screen at home and was streaming for the world to see, but the quality was very good. Drawback was that it was only whatever that person was watching. Couldn’t stream multiple channels at once.
But this is less common place nowadays because most people would rather have on demand titles akin to Netflix where you have total control over what is shown on your TV and the ability to pause and rewind or fast forward if desired. There’s also the fact that you’re not chained to only watch what some network has decided they want to air today, which often was a rerun or out of sequential order if they played multiple episodes in a row. As well as the ability to get up and do other things and not have to worry about something because you can’t rewind or pause. And then there’s ads shown on each network despite the fact you pay to have this “premium” service.
TL;DR: unlikely to find a high seas alternative in this day and age of on demand streaming to cable access/YouTube TV.