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Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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People buy Firesticks and run the Amazon software?
What a disconnected statement. Every once in a while I recommend going into the real world (yes I know it's scary) and exploring your relationships out side of the internet
Man I hate this flippant pseudointelligent passive-aggressive crap.
Yes, not everyone missed their childhood to learn Linux like we did. People don’t have the time or knowledge to build their own streaming box. None of their friends are ever impressed when they do anyway.
Those people are all busy specializing in something else, so that you or I don’t have to learn to farm, or manufacture Cheetos, or keep the water running.
This is being extremely exploited by late-stage capitalism now, however. What we need are some ethical choices for stuff like smart devices, things that don’t need “cloud connection” just so your phone can turn your lights on. FFS they’re right next to each other, we don’t need to bring CloudFlare into this.
Then proceeds to spew different pseudo intelligent passive-aggressive crap. 🥴😮💨
We're not talking about installing Linux or anything close. We're talking about downloading an app, paying for an IPTV subscription and a VPN. 🫠
Hi there, is there alternative software that can be installed instead? Any recommendations?
https://www.firesticktricks.com/smart-iptv.html
That does not solve the problem. Its just an app installed onto the firetv. You do not replace the launcher or circumventing launch screen ads.
I don't have a firestick, but they might just be meaning a different launcher. I use this one on a Shield. Works great. https://www.firesticktricks.com/wolf-launcher.html
Amazon’s shit is locked down pretty well. At least the fire cube is, not sure about the stick.
I wasn’t able to easily change launchers on my 1st gen cube. It is possible via flashing a whole new OS I believe but I was really hoping for a side-loadable solution.