Block YouTube ads and Shorts on your TV with an agent-run repo
An update to dumbtv adds blocking of YouTube ads and Shorts on Android-based TVs. The builder made the community support video with Claude Opus 5.5 and merged fixes from contributors.
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@DevMuzzammil on X · 2026-10-19
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-20.
What they did
An update to dumbtv adds blocking of YouTube ads and Shorts on Android-based TVs. The builder made the community support video with Claude Opus 5.5 and merged fixes from contributors.
Result (as claimed)
He reports 420 GitHub stars, 12 merged PRs and 100+ people who cleaned up their TVs with the repo in about a day.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Opus 5.5: from $4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens.
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You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Block YouTube ads and Shorts on your TV with an agent-run repo What the original author did: An update to dumbtv adds blocking of YouTube ads and Shorts on Android-based TVs. The builder made the community support video with Claude Opus 5.5 and merged fixes from contributors. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He reports 420 GitHub stars, 12 merged PRs and 100+ people who cleaned up their TVs with the repo in about a day. Source: https://x.com/DevMuzzammil/status/2112227989685768653 Tools they used: Claude Opus 5.5, ADB, YouTube Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Block YouTube ads and Shorts on your TV with an agent-run repo What the original author did: An update to dumbtv adds blocking of YouTube ads and Shorts on Android-based TVs. The builder made the community support video with Claude Opus 5.5 and merged fixes from contributors. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He reports 420 GitHub stars, 12 merged PRs and 100+ people who cleaned up their TVs with the repo in about a day. Source: https://x.com/DevMuzzammil/status/2112227989685768653 Tools they used: Claude Opus 5.5, ADB, YouTube Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Block YouTube ads and Shorts on your TV with an agent-run repo What the original author did: An update to dumbtv adds blocking of YouTube ads and Shorts on Android-based TVs. The builder made the community support video with Claude Opus 5.5 and merged fixes from contributors. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He reports 420 GitHub stars, 12 merged PRs and 100+ people who cleaned up their TVs with the repo in about a day. Source: https://x.com/DevMuzzammil/status/2112227989685768653 Tools they used: Claude Opus 5.5, ADB, YouTube Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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