Chromecast with Google TV is now serving some users with full-screen, auto-playing video ads for physical goods on the home screen. Read on!

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•8 months ago

    Step 1. Open window.

    Step 2. Grab TV.

    Step 3. Launch TV.

    Step 4. Start pricing monitors.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•8 months ago

      Or just don’t connect the TV to your network. It has inputs. Use an input device you have control over. The end.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•8 months ago

        a Chromecast is one of those inputs. And it has been a nice product. The reason people are mad is that they Google changed the product after they bought it significantly.

        and yes. Today the only reasonable good TV is a computer monitor connected to a device I have control over.