remove sponsored tiles from horizontal shelf

[alyyousuf7]

If you open up YouTube TV with a specific User-Agent (which my LG TV has), it shows sponsored tile like this:

Home Page

### Search Result

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; NetCast: U) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.3954.79 Safari/537.36 SmartTV/10.0 Colt/2.0

I tried with a couple of other user-agents from this source, and it didn't show me this sponsored tile, but I always got it with the above user-agent.

The fix is simple - look for adSlotRenderer key, and remove it while parsing JSON.

[fire332]

May I suggest moving the changes related to dev UX to a separate PR? There's a few more related changes that I had in mind. Namely updating dependencies and using --mode production flag by default when calling webpack.

[alyyousuf7]

May I suggest moving the changes related to dev UX to a separate PR? There's a few more related changes that I had in mind. Namely updating dependencies and using --mode production flag by default when calling webpack.

By dev UX, do you mean the .gitignore and husky related changes?

UPDATE: Removed everything unrelated to the title of the PR.
UPDATE2: created a separate PR for dev ux

[alyyousuf7]

I just realized that the same sponsored tile also appears in search result - i have pushed another commit to fix that as well

[throwaway96]

Have you tested this? If so, on what webOS version?

[alyyousuf7]

Have you tested this? If so, on what webOS version?

Yes, I tested it on this device:
User-Agent: LG Browser/8.00.00 (webOS.TV-2022), _TV_O18/03.33.80 (LG, 55UQ7590PUB, wireless)

[igorkulman]

I build and deploy the app after this PR got fixed and I still see the sponsored tile on my LG WebOS 3 TV

[alyyousuf7]

I have started seeing them again as well. I think YouTube responses have changed overtime.

[jnewc]

If you have more than one account it can also appear for one but not the other

[alyyousuf7]

I'll dig into this more and raise another PR - it might not be that YouTube changed their response, but it is possible that I missed some of the cases.

[jospezial]

Could parts of #93 help to block that tile again?