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Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through once.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't heard of this one. Personally, I use FLauncher.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

they do look tasty 'doh.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's weird how much better Chromecast was when it came out than it is now. Stronger hardware, sure, but no real antifeatures, you could set it up without installing the app, you could use the app without giving it location data, casting was way more straightforward...

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why are people in this thread fine with ads being played on their televisions. So strange.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Because there either astroturfing or bots astroturfing

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm I am craving some hamburgers

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have a pi-hole or other way to block access to your network, I've found these useful to block:

androidtvwatsonfe-pa.googleapis.com

androidtvchannels-pa.googleapis.com

androidtvlauncherxfe-pa.googleapis.com

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Amazing that blocking DNS is still a thing for gadgets like this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dns resolution is integral to load balancing and regional content delivery. There is no universe where a single server, even a specially designed asic, could handle proxy routing if there was a DNS outage and every iPhone or android device or whatever failed to a single IP. Thank God the Internet works this way tbh, dns-based content blocking will probably be the only thing we can do eventually

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

kinda funny

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Download another launcher, set it as default home, and forget about google's excessive ads. Depending on your model, you may need to run an ADB command. You may need to get a remote remapper app to remap the home button to open the launcher

I am using this one for my android tv https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu

And flauncher for my chromecast https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.efesser.flauncher

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

While I am normally a fan of tendies, this ad was the final straw for me with the GoogleTV launcher. I'd been in app-only mode, but now I'm rocking Project Ivy instead. Thanks for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ive been using ivy on my Chromecast it's good, but Flauncher looks more like what I want.
Protip for Chromecast users - disable the stock launcher via adb to set a new default

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