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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Pi-hole, nvidia shield, custom launcher = less ads for the whole family

[–] Peetipablo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Which custom launcher are you using?

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Flauncher here, and its great

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How did you set it as the launcher? Adb?

[–] Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't even needed. Just downloaded the app with another downloaded app and then installed it. Then it props you what launcher you want. Plenty of videos on yt about this.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago

Oh cool!

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you know of a good tutorial on how to do all that? I'm planning on buying a new TV towards the end of this year and want to have the pi-hole, etc working first

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pi-hole is super easy. Literally just install it, and set your dhcp on your router to push out that IP as your dns server. Configure pi-hole to use an upstream dns server.

https://pi-hole.net/

There's a bunch of launchers out there. I did mine a while back and used Wolf launcher, but later found out it was a "hacked" version of some other paid launcher. I used launcher manager to "enable" it on boot. Right out of the box, it has all apps and no ads. I suspect any launcher you go with will be similar.