Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by jader201 on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:44PM (#27885300)

My “Up Next”, which is Apple’s integration to show shows you’ve been watching when the Apple TV app is selected in the top bar, is polluted constantly with MLB games that I’ve not figured out how to disable. Sometimes I have to skip 3 or 4 games in the bar to find a show I watched yesterday.

And I never watch MLB games nor do I have the app installed (clicking the games brings me to install the MLB app).

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by crooked-v on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:55PM (#27885426)

Settings -> Apps -> TV, turn off the sports recommendations in there. Those are off by default, so you must have turned them on at some point.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by jader201 on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:00PM (#27885476)

Yeah, I’ve done that plus one other remotely related setting. Doesn’t help.

E.g. “Show sports scores” is off, “Games in Up Next” is off, and “Exciting Games” is off.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by thewebcount on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:19PM (#27885689)

FWIW, I have all those things on and have never seen anything sports-related. I have changed the settings for the TV app to only show what's in "Up Next" instead of "What to Watch", though. Maybe that's the difference?

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by jader201 on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:34PM (#27886454)

Yeah, I’ve had that set to show “Up Next” for a while. I use it mainly as quick access to series I’m watching. Which is why having MLB games show up in the middle of them is frustrating.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by mh- on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:42PM (#27886533)

Is the MLB app installed? Is it in the top row?

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by jader201 on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:05PM (#27887803)

Nope, not sure it’s ever been installed (not 100% sure, but it’s definitely not installed now). Like I said, clicking any of the MLB games in the bar will ask me to install the app.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by radley on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:30PM (#27886410)

I moved top row apps that show promos to the right end. This way I'm not exposed to promos unless I'm on those apps (instead of seeing the promos on my way to another app).

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