A guide to an ad-free Android TV setup: Projectivy launcher and SmartTube
What happened
A tutorial on Hacker News describes making an Android TV ad-free by swapping the launcher and the video app, handling home-screen ads and YouTube playback ads separately. For the home screen it disables the stock Google TV launcher over ADB and installs Projectivy Launcher in its place; the report says this removes the home-screen ad banners entirely. For video it replaces the official YouTube app with SmartTube for ad-free playback. The report gives these setup steps only and does not cover later changes.
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- Hacker News front pageAn ad-free Android TV
通过 ADB 禁用 Google TV 原生启动器并安装 Projectivy Launcher，可彻底移除主屏广告横幅，同时用 SmartTube 替换官方 YouTube 应用实现无广告播放。
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