I always find it funny when a newspaper has an article complaining about banner ads and the article itself insists on automatically playing a video ad per paragraph of text.
Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
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#52As soon as the ads appeared I voted with my wallet and ditched my Shield for an Apple TV. So far I don’t have any complaints.
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#53It's really incredible how the average American home spends some $116/mo for television[1], and is still subjected to 16 minutes of advertisements per hour of entertainment. [1] https://www.doxo.com/insights/united-states-of-bill-pay-doxo...
It really feels like more than 16.. you know, just the other day I realized my Roku TV was analyzing the video stream of what I was watching, and adding its own ads on top of the output of my Shield. Wonder if it would be possible to jailbreak the Roku, patch the firmware so that it recognized and blocked ads instead..
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.
That is certainly better than the Shield, which is giving me recommendations for stuff I don't subscribe to. As far as I understand though, is that it will show recommendations provided by installed apps. I do have Prime, and I still don't really want recommendations without explicitly asking for it.
The appleTV app might do that, but I use the AppleTV and just avoid the appleTV app and it doesn't interfere with anything. If I had an ad appear one day I'd throw the whole thing away.
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#55My shield updated to this the other day. I'm pretty furious about it, it's not a cheap device, and it's certainly not Google's. To be adding these "features" without asking, irrespective of whatever agreement between me, Nvidia or Google exists, is ridiculous. I know it's in whatever terms I, uh, "accepted", but there's just no escaping it in this day and age. Fortunately, I know how to use ADB and just installed ano…
> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.
It does however have a lot of space dedicated to advertising shows in paid apps that you may not own inside of the AppleTV app itself which you use to track your own owned and subscribed content.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.
Youtube app update and now has a huge banner ad at the top when you start it up. Very annoying!
This is Apple's fault how?
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That is certainly better than the Shield, which is giving me recommendations for stuff I don't subscribe to. As far as I understand though, is that it will show recommendations provided by installed apps. I do have Prime, and I still don't really want recommendations without explicitly asking for it.
If I recall you can disable this on a per-app basis.
This is different from the recommendation "channels" that each app can provide. You can choose whether or not each one shows up on the home screen, re-order them, and so on.
This is a giant banner at the top of the home page that shows ads from random streaming services that you may or may not subscribe to or have installed.
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#58What's the best alternative launcher?
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#59Re: Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
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Wolf Launcher, seems to do everything I need from a homescreen. Lets you hide apps and has some basic customisation. Not amazing, but it has no ads.
Supposedly Wolf Launcher stole its code from some abandonware launcher, and is not open source. I'm wary of using it, personally.
Hmm, so it seems. Well, I've been looking around and there seems to be only one open-source launcher I could find. I'll give it a try.