Chromecast with Google TV is now serving some users with full-screen, auto-playing video ads for physical goods on the home screen. Read on!

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.

  • ToppestOfDogs@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I wanna piggyback onto this comment to say that you can change the home launcher on a Chromecast With Google TV (And some other Android TV boxes) by downloading another launcher first (I use FLauncher) and disabling the default home launcher.

    1.Download FLauncher first

    2.Enable USB debugging

    3.ADB into your TV’s IP from a computer

    4.adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx

    This will disable the original launcher

    5.adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

    This will disable the service that re-enables the launcher

    This will cause the home button on the remote to fall back to whatever other home app is installed. No button remapping needed. It will also break the YouTube button, but not the Netflix button.