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Developers Are Dumbing Down Their Smart TVs

Smart TVs are officially getting too smart for their own good. Fed up with bloatware and constant advertising, developers are using AI coding assistants to simplify television interfaces.

These projects include CleanYourTV, Projectivity Launcher, and DumbTV, each pursuing the same goal in a different way. CleanYourTV and Projectivity Launcher replace cluttered Android TV and Google TV home screens with a minimalist, customizable hub. DumbTV actually uninstalls specific streaming apps, which you have to reinstall to use them again.

Some of these tools run on a computer and connect to the TV using ADB. Once you enable debugging and give permission, they can check what's installed, change settings, and add apps. Changing the home screen doesn't stop all tracking, but based on my experience with Projectivity Launcher, it does seem to stop ads.

Like all third-party installs, these tools carry some marginal risks. Disabling parts of your TV can mess up...

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