Thank you. Probably because of the copy and paste of an AI answer, which is somewhat understandable in most cases.

I hope you get it to work. I tried re-mapping some of the custom buttons on the remote, but it didn't seem to work consistently, and right/left arrowing to navigate the app list isn't much of an impost, so I haven't really tried to troubleshoot it.

If I was a bit more brave with my TV (family members would not be happy with a bricked TV), I'd give this a go: https://github.com/seun-novodev/android-tv-debloat-toolkit

P.S. These are the Smart TV Blocklists I use:

  https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hkamran80/blocklists/refs/heads/main/smart-tv.txt
  https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/smart-tv.txt

Plus this list of regular expressions specific to TCL domains:

  /(\.|^)leiniao\.com$/
  /(\.|^)tclking\.com$/
  /(\.|^)tcllauncher\.com$/
  /(\.|^)my7v\.com$/
  /(\.|^)huan\.tv$/