A reddit post about a story about AndroidTV whose solve can be found in by searching r/AndroidTV
I’ve been tracking users on the Android TV subreddit regarding this change for a few days now and, obviously, initial reactions there and in Google Play reviews have not been positive. No one is a fan of ads being dumped on their homescreen without consent, and worse yet Android TV doesn’t offer a way to turn these off. Well, at least officially
We are Inception
Keep hammering them with bad reviews.
Ugh. The worst part about the Amazon fire TV interface and Google are copying it
On a 35 dollar Roku or whatever amazon calls their boxes this is expected. But on a 200 dollar shield or 1k+ dollar Tv's this is unacceptable. I too bought the Shield as I found ads on my Roku to be too intrusive. For me, I will install a 3rd party launcher and disable leanback. Sure I give up features, but overall all I use leanback for is an app launcher. 3rd party launchers do that just fine.
Google has turned into a really shitty company lately. This coupled with them shutting down Google Play Music leaves me really soured.
Use pi-hole. Screw all ads.
r/pihole
I turned off auto updates a few days ago when hearing about the ads update, I looked in the update section today and there's a update for both Android TV core services and Android TV Home im guessing those are the Ad updates.
It's Android, if they force it on my shieldTV I'll just use an alternative launcher.
Yeah turn it off by "uninstalling updates" until Google makes sure you can't use certain services until you update.
Assuming it only shows content on services I'm subscribed to and not stuff on Google Play Movies or whatever that nonsense is called now I don't think I'll mind.
Although if it slows down my TV even more then I will!
They're doing everything they can to turn me off of them entirely. I've switched to DuckDuckGo and Firefox, and now I'm on my first and last Android TV. I despise being advertised at, especially as the result of being bait and switched. The original UI of my $3,000 TV was slick and simple. Then they started to put in ads, but always integrated into the UI. Annoying, but whatever. Now, this: a giant middle finger, and half my 75" TV screen filled with Mark Wahlberg's dopey fucking face. Google's made me a chump for the last time. I'm done with them.
I'm glad this fix changed it back for now. But this fucking sucks.
Mercifully, the ads apparently are US-only (for now).
Does Apple TV have ads? A content nuetral, ad-free experience as a big reason why I went for Android TV (Nvidia Shield) in the first place.
I came here looking for this. I bought a very expensive Sony TV so I could turn off all their "promotions" I'm aware that cheaper TVs are subsidized through their Ad agreements. Then I woke on Monday to this garbage. I would be fine with it if I could turn it off, wtf..
Honestly, this update just might make me sign out of this tv and just use the input for my Apple TV 100% going forward.
Assuming this has rolled out to the shield tv I wonder if my pi-hole is blocking it as I've not seen anything.
What. The. Fuck?
I have gone from researching every single spec, for months to now the ONLY deciding factor is what TV doesn't have ads. I dont give a shit about anything else in comparison. I am not spending £2k to watch ads, unbelievable
Haven't received these YET but seriously, the case for switching to iOS has been going strong for last 2~3 years.
Facebook complaining about iOS's latest update is just cherry on the top and at the other hand, Google is doing this sh!t.
This is BS!!! I bought my 1400$ 55inch Sony slightly less than 2yrs ago and a big selling point over a samsung Qled was NO ADS!! This ain't right Sony!! Fn ads, companies aren't going to stop till every minute of every day yr seeing ads, n they would beem them into our dreams if they could,. That'll probably be next. 🤬 un-updated and removed them for now for as long as I can but they will force this update eventually
So sick of ads shoved in my face all the time. Now it’s on my tv home screen. I thought I was past this after upgrading away from tcl tv
Not rollout in india..
I'm going to let it update to see how it feels in practice, but the screen shots make me think they are going to need to make those less intrusive. More like how Roku does it in a sidebar that can just be ignored if the ad is uninteresting.
I have a Roku and Android TV box and I was on the fence trying to decide if I would get a Hisense H9G (with Android) or a TCL 6 Series (with Roku) this Christmas. If the ads clunky up the navigation Google might have just convinced me to go with Roku.
So ads in the default launcher? - > switch to a 3rd party launcher.
I have adguard DNS set up on my router configuration so that I don't get banner ads on any device connected to it, wonder whether that will be enough to block these? It works well on websites and in-app ads but youtube ads are whole another story (yes I know and use Vanced).
If I can't disable them, I should be able to return my NVIDIA Shield TV Pro as defective.
i wondered wtf that was..... TIL there's some new shit on my mibox...
I've just spent almost £1000 on a Sony XG95 aka X905G or whatever it's called in the US. No ads for me in the UK, yet..
Does this work on a Sony AndroidTV? I can't seem to find the screens mentioned in the instructions.
I think if you switch vpn to Canada momentarily. You will loose the ads.. turning off vpn afterwatds doesn't seem to bring it back unless you clear cache and data on the launcher and core services.
Are these ads based on the services you have? If they are then I wouldn’t really mind them.
UPDATE: Figured our that they aren’t, so while they are kind of annoying, they do look a lot cleaner than other brands. Also, most of the services in the ad I already have so personally it’s not a big deal but I get how it can be annoying.
NBD.. as long as it doesn't interfere with my top row.
The new little gif on the top shows all the movies/shows on demand, which provide the resource for me. I feel it could be helpful, since sometime I don’t know what to watch. I also feel it makes the UI looks better, more rich and colorful. The launcher was just too “empty” before. I love it so far.
For me this new feature is very helpful, and makes the UX look way nicer.
i cant see any ad in these photos
This still isn’t a great option. No one wants to manually update their apps after shutting down the Google Play Store. No one wants inappropriate ads spamming across the top of their home screen either. There should be a toggle to turn it off.
Best thing you can do is leave a bad review here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tvlauncher&hl=en