Force Refresh of ad on For You home screen?

by ChiefSmash

Hello all. I'm pretty new to Google/Android TV as I bought a Sony Bravia recently. Ads don't normally bother me much except today I got a Youtube ad for a new Beyonce album. I have young kids and the album cover shows her nearly nude and has a link to an the album online, specifically stating that it's got explicit content. I'm trying to take some measures to limit any accidental exposure to what I deem to be objectional content, including blocking both androidtvwatsonfe-pa.googleapis.com and androidtvchannels-pa.googleapis.com at the router level but this damn ad is still there on my TV. Is there a way to force the For You section to refresh itself? I've tried turning the WiFi off and back on and I restarted the TV via the System preferences but so far, that ad won't go away. Does anyone have any other tips? Are there any other URLs I should be blocking? I really appreciate the help.

Edit: Things I learned. On my Bravia, there was no Andoid Home but the Google TV app seemed to be the equivalent. Killing this app seemed to refresh my Home screen. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to block the ads that still left the TV usable in a way that I liked. I was able to set up PiHole on an old Raspberry Pi I had and it worked well on my other devices, just not in blocking the ads on my TV. The one DNS request I was able to block was for the launcher on my TV but this left my TV lagging during regularly use. I'm going to ditch the default launcher and use the Apple TV (I know, probably not a popular device in these parts) as the default interface. I very much appreciate everyone's help here. I learned a lot.

eXeToR

I would change the Launcher and forget the ads, that's what I did on mine and a friends TV. I would also recommend SmartTube instead of the official YouTube app.

kurmudgeon

On your TV, go to Settings -> Apps -> See all apps -> Show system apps -> Android TV Home

Force stop the app, then clear data, then open the app again from the same screen.

It should cause the app to attempt to pull ads down again, but it won't be able to since you've blocked those URLs and it'll show its default screen.

HappenFrank

I noticed that ad yesterday too and was like whoa wtf lol. Crazy they allow ads like that

sanjay_82

Setup pi-hole on your home network and all this bs will be gone forever