Users are debloating Android TVs with AI agents to strip ads

People are using Claude and other coding agents over ADB to disable ads, telemetry and preloaded apps on Android TV and Google TV. A GitHub repo called tv-vibehack with the prompt and a minimal launcher has passed 1,300 stars, while a separate dumbtv repo targets Amazon Fire TV.

• tv-vibehack repo has over 1,300 stars and 146 forks under MIT license
• The agent disables packages via pm disable-user instead of uninstalling them
• dumbtv disables about 65 packages on Fire OS 7.7.1.7 and ships a 41 KB launcher
• The method works on Android TV and Google TV, not on Tizen, webOS or Roku