Using their lists almost daily with Hypnotix to watch news on the laptop without having to keep a browser open to TV official web pages that often show 80%+ advertising and/or flashing crap.
There are also some good IPTV players on Kodi repositories.
The related Awesome IPTV repo also has a helpful list of resources (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android apps, online tools etc) that work really well with these IPTV channels.
Worth noting before any outcry about breaking copyright: A lot of these streams are geo-restricted (based on IP, afaik), or encrypted in some other way. It's not a 100% sure, free and easy way to view the content of streams you otherwise shouldn't have access to.
I don't understand what the "publicly available" means. I tried some of them and they seem to require logins or paying accounts. Does this mean that for such streams, I'm in a geo-restricted area? I wonder where some of these would _not_ be geo-restricted (especially e.g. "Canal+").
It means they're available to the "public", whose meaning changes depending on what country you're/the channel is in. As an example, the Swedish broadcasts from SVT (government TV) is "public" but only for people in Sweden, so if you're on a IP "located" outside of Sweden, you won't be able to watch those streams.
If you like this sort of stuff, Pluto TV is really good.
Their official app is ad-infested, tracker-infested, georestricted garbage. However, the streams directly don't implement any of this. Their geo blocks seem to be Deezer-style client side checks that don't even apply to you if you're using VLC or any other third-party app.
Is it pirated or is it legit and you need login? I thought the latter, but list also had legit 'open access' channels from around the world that don't require anything to watch! :)
Actually, its free access to pirated cable channels, so the pirates are being pirated, and what can they really about that except rotate IPs on a daily basis, hence the daily list updates.
https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u