Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM

Re:Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells custo... by tyingq on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:49AM (#29864934)

The Nvidea Shield Android TV box was an interesting case in this space. It is much more expensive than a Roku or FireTV box, but has some premium features.

Originally, there weren't ads. But because Google controls Android TV, intrusive ads started appearing. So you paid for a premium product, but ended up with a shitty experience.

I hadn't followed it much, so no idea if NVidea ever addressed it.

Was a pretty hot topic ~7 months ago though. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/4579...

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Re:Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells custo... by katbyte on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:23PM (#29865306)

This also affected Sony tvs, I was super annoyed by it - I dns blocked their ad servers with pihole and now I get ads for YouTube, play store, and google music. Clearly the baked in placeholder ones.

It’s not ideal but I can tolerate it more then actual ads.

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Re:Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells custo... by beerandt on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:41PM (#29866079)

You can disable play services and uninstall the launcher updates to fix this, then running Netflix will prompt you to enable play services.

Clicking the first "enable" prompt in Netflix will start play services without enabling it and bring you to the app settings page to enable it. Don't enable it. (The force stop button is selectable, which tells you it's now running.)

Hitting back without enabling play services brings you back to Netflix, then you can use most drm streaming services, without play services updating your home screen with ads.

Only catch is play store won't work, but you can enable play services occasionally to download updates or new apps, then just repeat these steps.

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