Fucking ad for a Spyware infested piece of shit
My parents use some, they spam my PCs fucking firewall logs like hell. They also regulary get silent updates which make them slower and slower and slower (which shouldn’t be possible because it’s freezing all the time)
You should sideload Kodi or Jellyfin on it for them.
No thanks. It’s all about data harvesting and ads now.
There was a time it was a neat product, but Amazon tech isn’t entering our household anymore.
Honestly it’s just a glorified Google TV with a nicer remote. I feel like the only Fire TV device that might be interesting enough to consider buying would be the Fire Cube or the Fire Recast but IDEK if they still work anymore.
While based on Google TV, they lock down the OS, control the app store, and force their apps. You’re in their walled garden and it’s a pain to break out in any meaningful way.
Hmm…well it’s been a couple years since I used my Fire Stick but I remember being able to sideload Android TV apps on there just like I can now with my Google TV device.
If I recall you still can through ADB, but it’s a pain and they started locking that down too. Ad blocking VPN (at least the one I tried) didn’t work.
There was a big update about a year ago that very clearly sent the message “this device will show what we want you to see.”
Ah, that doesn’t shock me. Yeah I left when they started like disabling custom launchers or something, and I realized getting a Google TV would be easier than getting around that restriction.
Dude I use Lemmy to not see ads, why are you posting this?
Fuck Amazon.
If there were a way I could load Lineage on it, maybe. Not interested in a device locked to Amazon’s firmware.
