Ah, it's interesting but if you really want the cable TV experience, there is pluto.tv which works in a browser, and is generally installed on most streaming boxes/sticks/TVs.

Does this avoid YouTube ads or pass them through? I somewhat wonder if this kind of thing is the reason that YouTube wants to progressively lock down their platform. (They don't want users avoiding their algorithms and their ads.)

I want to automate a feed of text summaries of videos from YouTube channels and playlists, and then fetch full transcripts of the ones that interest me.

Any idea if this is possible without having to query the YouTube API?

Literally Pluto TV v1 à la 2013/14.

Source: me. I built it with some folks.

There's a nice interview with Stallman where he's asked about this: what are people's motivation for contributing to Free software.

https://youtu.be/ucXYWG0vqqk?t=1889

I find him speaking really soothing.

I love how 'Music 80s' is channel 29, which was MTV on cable when I was growing up in the tri-state area in the 80s ;)

Would love a way to get this on my tv! Casting from a browser would be too much

Also reminds me of Bob Dylan's "How Does It Feel" website:

https://video.bobdylan.com/

Which has folks from The History channel, Pawn Stars, etc

Clicking any of the videos/channels doesn't cause the videos to play. What am I missing?

I want something like this for Plex, where I can just turn it on and have some of my favorite shows play random episodes, and I wish Plex made that easy to do.