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cleanyourtv
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Gathin23 / cleanyourtv
cleanyourtv
Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
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Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
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12 sourcesNInico·Nov 2, 2026
The other day I saw this project to flash your TV with custom software: https://www.tiktok.com/@itstundealao/video/77013919041931215...
Here are the repos mentioned: https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv
https://github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv
The video is pretty cool. The guy flashes his tv with a custom firmware with a look/feel and elements he chose, plus a feature he created to leave handwritten notes for his girlfriend on the home screen of the TV, remotely from his laptop
In Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?Aside from getting a "dumb" tv, your best bet right now is to get a tv running google/androidtv and run a script like https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv against it to remove all of the tracking etc. from it.
In Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?Any AndroidTV and then run CleanYourTV [1] on it, gets completely rid of all Google ads and additional bloatware by the manufacturer. Maybe run Claude against the repo first to check for malware but going by the number of stars it seems to be solid.
[1] https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv
In Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?CleanYourTV : Debloat Any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi
2 points · Open discussionA perhaps relevant "Clean Your TV" project (although it doesn't work for Samsung): https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv
In Root shell on Samsung TVUsing AI to clean your smart TV
1 points · Open discussionSo they recommend that you debloat your TV by pasting a rather lengthy prompt into your coding agent, that'll take a long time to sort things out.
And then, near the bottom of the page, they provide a 9 lines of shell script that according to them does "everything the agent does". Uhh.. okay? I guess the agent would be for trouble shooting, but I'm not really sold on this modern of delivering software yet.
https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv/tree/main#doing-it-b...
In Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smartFound this a few days ago as well.
https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv/tree/main
In Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smartCleanyourtv – Debloat Any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi
3 points · Open discussionCleanYourTV: Remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TV
2 points · Open discussionStrip the Bloatware from Any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi
6 points · Open discussionFyi. The following repo and it has been getting a lot of traction, PRs, commits, support. Better to use the one debloater that is popular, than the one made by only one person.
https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv
In An ad-free Android TV