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As an alternative to a different launcher you can block the domain responsible for the ads [0] in your DNS resolver. The Launcher will then fallback to less intrusive "ads" for the standard apps: YouTube, Google Play, Google Movies, etc.

I've added it to the adaway.org list [1], so it might find its way into blocklists you are already using soon.

[0] androidtvwatsonfe-pa.googleapis.com

[1] https://github.com/AdAway/adaway.github.io/pull/261



Same approach for Samsung TVs. In fact nextdns has an option for Samsung ads explicitly so just enable that and point the TVs DNS to that. I presume this could be added to nextdns too with a custom url block.




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