• limonfiesta@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Nvidia has destroyed the stock Shield TV experience with ads, but it’s easy to install custom launchers like Projectivy. The underlying system is still a privacy nightmare, but I don’t care that Nvidia knows what TV shows I watch.

    I mean, I do care, just not enough to use something like Kodi as my primary TV interface. Maybe if I used any ad supported services I’d feel differently, but I don’t, so meh.

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        1 hour ago

        Yes, Google is an inextricably linked to all Google TV issues, but they didn’t force Nvidia to ruin the Shield TV’S launcher with ads, and other bloat.

        At least, not as far as I know. If you have sources saying otherwise, I’d be happy to take a look.

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          60 minutes ago

          but they didn’t force Nvidia to ruin the Shield TV’S launcher with ads, and other bloat.

          The “Shield’s launcher” is just Android TV… Nvidia did not write their own Android launcher just for this device.

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            43 minutes ago

            Fuck me. You might be right, as I haven’t actually used the stock launcher since the big ad update years back.

            I just remembered my original launcher having a lot of a Nvidia specific integrations, but I guess those could have just been bolted on at the system level.