Mount TV wall bracket on aerated concrete / plasterboard

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Never heard of your listed or even “wall plugs”. If they’re the usual plastic anchors or those (I feel) worthless screw in plastic anchors I’d say no way.
I’d do some better investigation on what is this wall and what material is behind the Sheetrock.
Depending on the answer to the above, you might be better firmly mounting a pc of 3/4” plywood large enough to fill in a lot more fasteners (and still be unseen or trimmed out to look good in all the different positions you move that thing.
New tv’s are not real heavy but what you do moving it around adds quite a bit of torque.
Have not had anything I’ve hung processionallyv in over 50 years fall down.