CleanYourTV: remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TV

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Your TV, minus
the ads.

Switches off ads and bloatware and puts a small, clean launcher on your TV. No root. Nothing uninstalled. One command undoes it.

After: the clean CleanYourTV home screen, a clock and four app tiles — My parents' TV, the afternoon it started. Drag to compare.

Before: the stock home screen with a sponsored banner and rows of promoted apps — My parents' TV, the afternoon it started. Drag to compare.

Trick or treat? Pick your button

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TV models testedfrom 101 brands: 380
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CH 01 · Set up

Three steps. Your coding assistant does the typing.

01
On the TV
Switch on Wi-Fi debugging in Developer options.
02
On your computer
Paste the prompt into your coding assistant. It finds the TV on your Wi-Fi.
03
Follow along
Approve on the TV, pick a theme. One command undoes it all.

The prompt is PROMPT.md in the repo. Put your TV model on the line that asks for it.

$ adb connect 192.168.1.42
› Found a Google TV on your network
› Something is haunting the home screen…
› Switching off ad and bloat packages
› Setting the clean launcher as home
✓ Done. Nothing was uninstalled.
  To undo, ask it to restore your TV.
$

CH 02 · Not Android?

Samsung, LG or Roku?

CleanYourTV can't run on these. Our Non-Android TV guide still turns off most of the tracking, step by step, no root needed.

Fix my TV's privacy

CH 03 · On air

Cleaned TVs, sent in by you.

CH 04 · Is it safe?

Yes, and you can undo it.

Nothing uninstalled

Apps are switched off, not deleted.

One command undoes it

Your TV goes back exactly as it was.

More in the questions people ask, or read how it started.

Your TV, minus the ads.