If your smart TV home screen feels more like an advertising billboard than your own living room, you are not imagining it. Sponsored rows, giant banners, preloaded apps you never asked for, and background tracking services have become the default experience on many Android TVs and Google TVs. CleanYourTV AI changes that in about fifteen minutes, and it does so without rooting your television, without a cable, and without deleting anything permanently.

CleanYourTV is a free, open-source project created by developer Gathin in October 2026. It went viral within days of its first release, collecting thousands of GitHub stars after its creator used an AI coding assistant to clean up his parents' Xiaomi TV, which was showing a sponsored advertisement before anyone could even reach Netflix.…