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I followed this guide on how to install a self-signed certificate and setup the routing to my proxy server on an Apple TV: https://lucaslegname.github.io/mitmproxy/2020/04/10/mitmprox...

TL;DR it involves using Apple Configuration to make a custom mobileconfig profile to point to your proxy and then also installing the certificate with the same method.

Of course! I’ve been wanting to run this for my Apple TV devices for a while now. tvOS itself doesn’t really have ads, but the third-party tv network apps have a lot of ads and tracking services which is what I wanted to work on stripping out.

I have it working for a few TV Everywhere compatible apps, but some are proving to be more difficult than others. I may have to do some other TLS inspection with mitmproxy and figure out what needs to be removed with the custom uBlock filter syntax option.

This reminds me of a now-dockerized Privaxy, which is a UBlock-origin blocklist compatible MITM proxy. It’s crazy to see how many ads and tracking scripts are on smart products, especially my TV where so far in my testing it’s over 40% unnecessary traffic. Its been pretty fun to try and strip out ads on my smart-tv apps.

https://github.com/deetungsten/webui-privaxy is the dockerized fork of https://github.com/Barre/privaxy

Maestral (https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral) is a pretty light-weight Dropbox client that works well for mac

Wasn’t this fixed in Big Sur?

It seems to be pretty clearly communicated to me when disconnecting...

https://imgur.com/oh7diHn

I wonder if turning off the blur/transparency effects in iOS results in any substantial battery difference...