Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
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Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
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Re: Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
#2Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing in that screenshot but that's exactly how my android tv home screen has looked forever.
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#3Does this only affect people who login to a Google account on an Android TV?
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#4I turn off automatic updates, set DNS to my adblocker, and delete app data for the TV system apps. My shield doesn't pull down the BS updates and has been on the old interface for about a year now.
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#5I turn off automatic updates, set DNS to my adblocker, and delete app data for the TV system apps. My shield doesn't pull down the BS updates and has been on the old interface for about a year now.
How do you make sure to still receive security and other updates?
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#6I turn off automatic updates, set DNS to my adblocker, and delete app data for the TV system apps. My shield doesn't pull down the BS updates and has been on the old interface for about a year now.
How do you make sure to still receive security and other updates?
You don't. That's the trade off to make. You gotta pay a premium for the dumb TV's if you can even find them. If you can't find or pay, you either don't connect to the internet, connect but block every update, or you accept that you can never have actual control of the physical device you paid hundreds of dollars for.
I got given a "smart" tv a couple months ago. If blocking samsung's planned obselence, ever slowing, ad parasite updates mean my tv is slowly more out of date on security patches then whatever. All my sensitive traffic is over https anyway these days. All sensitive data is airgapped.
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#7I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but the ads and BS that get pushed onto my TCL / Google TV are infuriating. I’m convinced it’ll become unusable with a few years of updates because they can’t help themselves and will keep shoveling crap onto the Home Screen.
Re: Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
#8Does this only affect people who login to a Google account on an Android TV?
I think you are forced to login with a Google account on Android TV, I remember when setting up an emulator on Android Studio it wouldn't let me get past the setup without an account.
Re: Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
#9I turn off automatic updates, set DNS to my adblocker, and delete app data for the TV system apps. My shield doesn't pull down the BS updates and has been on the old interface for about a year now.
How do you make sure to still receive security and other updates?
I manually update the few apps that I use but yeah, I don't let any of the TV system apps update. I only use Plex, PBS, and NewPipe
Re: Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
#10Best solution is to install another launcher, set that one as default and remove/disable default launcher. I installed projectivity launcher and effectively disabled default launcher using one of these adb commands.
> If you are using Android TV Launcher,
> $ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.tvlauncher
> If you are using GoogleTV Launcher,
> $ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.app.tv.launcherx