I think there's some of that, but this wasn't done by the people who made and sold the hardware, nVidia. This was done by Google. Another post said that Googl

I think there's some of that, but this wasn't done by the people who made and sold the hardware, nVidia. This was done by Google. Another post said that Google's certifications require that the device manufacturer keep the stock launcher, which would mean that nVidia couldn't and can't do anything about this directly. nVidia is still selling plenty of these boxes and it would absolutely ruin their business if they started cramming ads into paid products.