I just got a Google TV device and was surprised to find it lists all my recently watched shows from D+ on the home page. I assume it has the ability to pull these from across many other apps.
I don’t want whatever I’m watching in the other room or on my phone to show up on the home screen. It could be a mature movie that I don’t want my young kids to watch, or even get scared by the thumbnail. And doesn’t this completely subvert the viewer profiles that each streaming service has? I want to keep my stuff, my wife’s stuff, and my kids’ stuff separate. Also, this may sound weird, but I just feel kind of weird having all my exact viewing habits on basically a bulletin board for my whole family to see.
Is there any workaround for this? I’ve only figured out how to delete specific items by long-pressing them, but this can only be done after they’ve already appeared.
That sounds very wonky indeed. The homescreen, and the entire GTV interface as a whole, isn't really customizable imo. It's just a gigant advertisement screen and after a while I just ignore most of the UI.
I'm logged in to several services which have multiple profiles assigned as well and I do not get displayed shows from other profiles on my homescreen. Probably this is due to the fact I haven't logged in to those profiles and thus never watched shows from other profiles. So maybe a workaround could be to create multiple local Google TV profiles, so each profile is signed in to their own service profile and so the reccomendations are displayed appropaitly.
Alternatively, you can look into installing a custom launcher. Haven't tried it out yet as it isn't straight forward and it probably won't fix your issue, but at least you can decide to do away with the "Continue Watching"-section all together.
/r/AndroidTV - List of alternative launchers for Android TV
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