Follow a 38-page guide to kill TV ads with whatever agent you use
Built from the playbook behind his TV De-Ad Bot, a free guide walks through removing smart-TV ads with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw or Hermes: find your TV's OS, connect with adb, snapshot apps, disable bloat, swap the launcher and block ads and tracking with NextDNS, Pi-hole or AdGuard Home.
Source
@0node0 on X · 2026-10-18
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-21.
What they did
Built from the playbook behind his TV De-Ad Bot, a free guide walks through removing smart-TV ads with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw or Hermes: find your TV's OS, connect with adb, snapshot apps, disable bloat, swap the launcher and block ads and tracking with NextDNS, Pi-hole or AdGuard Home.
Result (as claimed)
Covers Google TV, Fire TV, LG, Samsung, Roku and Vizio, with one-line undo for every change.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/mo; Claude Code: from $17/mo; OpenClaw: free plan, paid from Free; Hermes Agent: free plan, paid from $20/mo.
Set it up
Define the job
Say exactly what you want done and what the agent may and may not do on your behalf.
Share only what is needed
Give Grok Bot the minimum files or access required. Avoid sharing passwords in chat when a safer login flow exists.
Review the plan
Ask the agent to show its plan or draft before it acts, and approve each step that has real consequences.
Check the result
Confirm the outcome yourself (order placed, request sent, document understood) and keep a record.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Follow a 38-page guide to kill TV ads with whatever agent you use What the original author did: Built from the playbook behind his TV De-Ad Bot, a free guide walks through removing smart-TV ads with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw or Hermes: find your TV's OS, connect with adb, snapshot apps, disable bloat, swap the launcher and block ads and tracking with NextDNS, Pi-hole or AdGuard Home. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Covers Google TV, Fire TV, LG, Samsung, Roku and Vizio, with one-line undo for every change. Source: https://x.com/0node0/status/2111810352623018183 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, ADB, NextDNS, Pi-hole Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Follow a 38-page guide to kill TV ads with whatever agent you use What the original author did: Built from the playbook behind his TV De-Ad Bot, a free guide walks through removing smart-TV ads with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw or Hermes: find your TV's OS, connect with adb, snapshot apps, disable bloat, swap the launcher and block ads and tracking with NextDNS, Pi-hole or AdGuard Home. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Covers Google TV, Fire TV, LG, Samsung, Roku and Vizio, with one-line undo for every change. Source: https://x.com/0node0/status/2111810352623018183 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, ADB, NextDNS, Pi-hole Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Follow a 38-page guide to kill TV ads with whatever agent you use What the original author did: Built from the playbook behind his TV De-Ad Bot, a free guide walks through removing smart-TV ads with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw or Hermes: find your TV's OS, connect with adb, snapshot apps, disable bloat, swap the launcher and block ads and tracking with NextDNS, Pi-hole or AdGuard Home. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Covers Google TV, Fire TV, LG, Samsung, Roku and Vizio, with one-line undo for every change. Source: https://x.com/0node0/status/2111810352623018183 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, ADB, NextDNS, Pi-hole Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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