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Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through once.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Well the issue with what the above poster described is Samsung TV litters the autoplay on everything, so you feel like you are playing minesweeper trying to find somewhere you can leave the cursor without triggering an autoplay.

At least on the CCwGTV there's just the one big ad at the top, but everything else is a "safe" zone to leave the cursor, abd the cursor starts out default on the app row.

Also, CCwGTV allows you to just switch to a different launcher (without ads) entirely if you wish.

I have this issue with Netflix's app, pretty much every tile will loudly autoplay if you don't touch the cursor for a second, taking over the screen. You have to hit the back button to pop-up the settings menu to stop that from happening otherwise you'll walk away from your TV with some random 10s trailer playing on loop forever while you deal with something.