My cheap android tv is full of bloatware and ads everywhere
Hi everyone,
About a year ago, I bought a cheap, discounted Android TV. At first, it worked fine and YouTube ran smoothly. However, after a while, the official YouTube app got replaced by an app called "WebTube." I tried removing it and manually installing the official YouTube TV APK, but the system kept replacing it with WebTube.
A few months later, YouTube stopped working entirely, and the APK wouldn't launch either. When I tried downloading YouTube from the TV's pre-installed app store, it downloaded "Yandex" and "Firehub TV" instead. These apps were disguised as a YouTube "update" and were required just to run the fake WebTube app. To make matters worse, WebTube itself is completely broken—videos often fail to play and give me a black screen instead.
The settings menu on this TV is heavily locked down (it only shows basic Wi-Fi, time, and storage options), so I can't even get into stock Android settings or turn on Developer Options.
Does anyone know how to remove this bloatware/spyware, or if it's possible to flash the TV with a clean OS? Thanks!