Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
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Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#2Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook - we power their abuses with our money. Just stop buying their trash. Support open hardware, free and open source software.
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#3Android TV is a surprisingly bad system anyway. Barely apps, I can access maybe 100 games from my TV. The far majority absolute, and filled, trash games. I suddenly found myself locked out of thousands of things I used to watch because the browser, if even enable-able, sucks and so many sites/services have no interest in having an app. Owning a TV still feels like a step down for me, since I was used just streaming on my computer.
Without the kodi app I would see no reason to recommend a android smart TV over any cheap TV and a small Kodi box.
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#4Upstream ad blocking may help, but will the screen space still be taken up?
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#5I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#6Android TV is a surprisingly bad system anyway. Barely apps, I can access maybe 100 games from my TV. The far majority absolute, and filled, trash games. I suddenly found myself locked out of thousands of things I used to watch because the browser, if even enable-able, sucks and so many sites/services have no interest in having an app. Owning a TV still feels like a step down for me, since I was used just streaming o…
The entire Android TV experience is one of constant tweaking of F-Droid, Aurora Store, and Bromite System Webview app updates with upstream adblocking, firewalling, and rooting in an attempt to stymie this sort of crap from Google and other big, bad corporations. I ditched all of that and now run Libreelec (Kodi) on a Pi4.
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#7The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money.
The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the first place.
edit: a lot of comments are saying that the ads were added later, after purchase. This doesn't change my opinion at all, because people still bought products that have the capability for ads to be added retroactively. That is on you.
If you don't like the option of it happening, and as this example illustrates it can clearly happen, then do not buy products that have the capability of having ads added retroactively to the product.
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#8I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.
Kodi also works surprisingly well as Android app :) sorrily way snappier than on the RPI (v4, 8gb ram I think) that was explicitly recommended from the kodi website :/
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#9The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money. The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the first place. edit: a lot of comments are saying that the ads were added later, after purchase. This doesn't change my opinion at all, because people still bought products that have t…
How do you propose people don’t buy products that have ads added to them in the future?
Re: Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
#10The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money. The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the first place. edit: a lot of comments are saying that the ads were added later, after purchase. This doesn't change my opinion at all, because people still bought products that have t…
As far as I understand the product was bought first and the ads came later with an update.