Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV | Cord Cutters News
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Today, Cord Cutters News has confirmed that Amazon is adding full-screen video ads that will play when you start your Fire TV unless you quickly perform an action on it. This new update will be rolling out to all Fire TVs made in 2016 or newer. With this update, the ad at the top of […]
  • ImInPhx@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A lot of the fire tvs can be rooted! There’s a great community over at XDA with all the needed resources.

    I have two 4k sticks (1st gen) rooted and debloated running Leanback launcher. When you cut out all the junk, it really is (or was?) the best 4k streaming device under $50.

  • aksdb@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    You can btw “simply” opt out from this in the settings (look for “featured content” and disable it).

    Yes it should be opt-in, but it’s not that hard to keep the fire tv (stick) being a good device for the price paid.

    • Chahk@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      You can …

      For now. Until everyone gets used to it and suddenly the option to opt out disappears.

      • aksdb@feddit.de
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        10 months ago

        I can still throw away my fire tv stick then. At the moment it still does the job I bought it for and I won’t produce unnecessary garbage for something that might happen in the future.