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Nvidia has absolutely 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 genuinely 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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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s not Nvidia, that’s Google.

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- limonfiesta@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 fork just for this device.
    
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    limonfiesta@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
    
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